Large heath facts for kids
"Common ringlet" redirects here. For the other butterfly with this name, see Ypthima doleta.
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Coenonympha tullia, the large heath or common ringlet, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It flies in a variety of grassy habitats, including roadsides, woodland edges and clearings, prairies, bogs, and arctic and alpine taiga and tundra. It is a poor flyer, but can sometimes be found along ditches seeking new grounds. It is a holarctic species found in northern Europe and Asia and across North America. The species was first described by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1764.
Subspecies
In alphabetical order:
- C. t. ampelos (W. H. Edwards, 1871) – northwest common ringlet
- C. t. benjamini (McDunnough, 1928) – prairie ringlet
- C. t. brenda
- C. t. bosniae (Davenport, 1941)
- C. t. california (Westwood, 1851) – California ringlet
- C. t. columbiana (McDunnough, 1928) – ringlet
- C. t. davus (Fabricius, 1777)
- C. t. elko (W. H. Edwards, 1881)
- C. t. elwesi (Davenport, 1941)
- C. t. eryngii (H. Edwards, 1877)
- C. t. eunomia (Dornfeld, 1967)
- C. t. furcae (Barnes & Benjamin, 1926)
- C. t. gliwa
- C. t. haydenii (W. H. Edwards, 1872) – Hayden's common ringlet
- C. t. inornata (W. H. Edwards, 1861) – inornate common ringlet
- C. t. insulanus (McDunnough, 1928) – Vancouver ringlet
- C. t. kodiak (W. H. Edwards 1869) – Kodiak ringlet
- C. t. mackenziei (D. Davenport, 1936) – Mackenzie's ringlet
- C. t. mcisaaci (dos Passos, 1935) – McIsaac's ringlet
- C. t. mixturata (Alphéraky, 1897)
- C. t. mono (Burdick, 1942) – (common) ringlet
- C. t. ochracea (W. H. Edwards, 1861) – ochre (common) ringlet
- C. t. polydama (Haworth, 1803)
- C. t. pseudobrenda (Austin & R. Gray, 1998)
- C. t. scotica (Staudinger, 1901)
- C. t. sibirica (Davenport, 1941)
- C. t. subfusca (Barnes & Benjamin, 1926)
- C. t. suecica (Hemming, 1936)
- C. t. tullia (Müller, 1764) – common ringlet
- C. t. viluiensis (Ménétriés, 1859)
- C. t. yontocket (Porter & Mattoon, 1989) – Yontocket satyr ringlet
- C. t. yukonensis (W. Holland, 1900) – Yukon common ringlet
Formerly a subspecies:
- Coenonympha nipisiquit (McDunnough, 1939) – maritime ringlet
For more information on subspecies and biology
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