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Erebia rossii (Ross's Alpine)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Ross's Alpine or Arctic Alpine (Erebia rossii) is a member of the Satyrinae subfamily of Nymphalidae. It is found in arctic North America and northern Eurasia.
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Infraspecies

Erebia rossii erda
Erebia rossii gabrieli
Erebia rossii kuskoquima
Erebia rossii ornata
Erebia rossii rossii

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.457 inches (.037 m)

Prey / Diet

Carex atrata (black-spike sedge)[2]
Carex atrofusca (darkbrown sedge)[3]
Carex rariflora (looseflower alpine sedge)[3]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
♦ 2Jorrit 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.
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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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