Coenonympha oedippus

False ringlet
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Satyridae
Genus: Coenonympha
Species: C. oedippus
Binomial name
Coenonympha oedippus
(Fabricius, 1787)
Underside of a female

Coenonympha oedippus (false ringlet) is a species of butterfly in the family Satyridae. It is found in Austria, Belgium, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Mongolia, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, and Ukraine. It is extinct in Bulgaria, Germany, and Slovakia.

The False ringlet butterfly is endangered and is extinct in some lands.

References

  1. World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Coenonympha oedippus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 2014-12-08.
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