Woodland Ringlet (Erebia medusa)
2009 photos highlighted in yellow. Click on any photo to go to an enlarged picture, or simply scroll down the page.
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Medusa is a butterfly of eastern France, not occurring in the south, so I have little experience of it, having seen it only in two locations, the first near Beaune in eastern France, and again this year in the wetlands of the Jura where it was quite common. It has an almost complete set of ocelli on both the upperside and underside. The only possible species it could be confused with in France is the Almond-eyed Ringlet (E. alberganus) which is an altitude specialist, and even then the ocelli of medusa are much better developed and rounded with strong white centres.
15710: a female, difficult to photograph as it settled in low dense vegetation. Altitude 860m.
15786: a mating pair, female above. Altitude 860m.
