False ringlet
The false ringlet is a plain, dark sooty brown butterfly on top. Underneath it is rusty brown with a row of little eye spots on its back wings. It hops along in its flight over wet meadows.
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Fun facts
The caterpillar is pale green with stripes, and it lives from July until the next May, right through the winter.
It is endangered and has already disappeared from Germany, Bulgaria and Slovakia.
It likes damp meadows that sometimes flood, and there it sits on little stony hills.
The ones living in Japan are bigger and have larger eye spots.
Most asked questions about False ringlet
?Is the false ringlet rare?
Yes. It is endangered and has vanished from some countries, such as Germany and Bulgaria.
?Where does the false ringlet live?
In damp meadows and swamps in parts of Europe and Asia, as far east as Japan.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Coenonympha oedippus
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Coenonympha oedippus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Kars Veling. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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