Endangered
Yellow-banded Ringlet
Erebia flavofasciata
Yellow-banded Ringlet is a high mountain butterfly found in a small area of the Alps in Switzerland and Italy.
Appearance
In shape and size like cassiope, but nearer melampus in pattern. Ground-colour dark brown, as in most Erebias, the female being distinctly paler. The narrow russet-brown distal band of the forewing is separated by the veins into 5—6 rounded or ovate spots that bear small black dots. The spots in cellules 4 and 5 are generally somewhat elongate and bear a stronger black dot than the others.
Range and habitat
It is a high mountain butterfly found in a small area of the Alps in Switzerland and Italy.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
The adult is what most collections hold. The larva — the feeding stage — is often undescribed for the rarest names.
Life history follows the order: complete metamorphosis in moths and beetles, nymphs in grasshoppers and bugs. This page does not invent a host plant that no source named.
In crisis
Named moths and butterflies with a high threat category are often known from a small range and a thin series. Host-plant loss leaves little to recount.
Yellow-banded Ringlet is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Yellow-banded Ringlet, Wikidata item Q3319262. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
