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Erebia ligea (Arran Brown)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Erebia ligea (Arran brown) is a member of the Satyridae subfamily of Nymphalidae. This brown is widespread in southeastern and northern Europe. It prefers mixed woodlands at low altitudes. It is rarely seen on open areas. This species was first described by Linnaeus in his 10th edition of Systema Naturae in 1758, and the type locality is Sweden.
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Infraspecies

Erebia ligea arsenjevi
Erebia ligea borisi
Erebia ligea bulgarica
Erebia ligea herculeana
Erebia ligea interposita
Erebia ligea kamtschadalis
Erebia ligea kisokomana
Erebia ligea ligea
Erebia ligea mienschanica
Erebia ligea petsamoensis
Erebia ligea rishirizana
Erebia ligea shebalina
Erebia ligea suederlandica
Erebia ligea urgaensis
Erebia ligea vitimensis

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Deschampsia cespitosa (Tufted Hair-grass)[1]
Digitaria sanguinalis (redhair crabgrass)[2]
Milium effusum (American milletgrass)[2]
Poa annua (annual blue grass)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Chionomys nivalis (European snow vole)1
Erebia epiphron (Small Mountain Ringlet)1

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0