Red Ringlet
ベニヒカゲ · Benihikage
Photo: Alpsdake / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons
- Designated by
- Prefectural / Natural Monument
- Designation type
- Species
- Designated on
- April 1, 1977
- Prefectures
- Gunma
- Scientific name
- Erebia neriene
About the Erebia neriene (Benihikage)
The Benihikage has dark brown wings with orange-red bands and eyespots. In Japan it occurs in Hokkaido, Tohoku, central Honshu and Hokuriku. It inhabits grasslands in alpine and subalpine areas, and adults appear in summer. Its caterpillars feed on grasses and sedges. Gunma and Nagano designate the butterfly itself as a prefectural Natural Monument without specifying particular habitats.
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The Red Ringlet is designated as a species without a fixed area and lives in places such as Gunma.
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