| Scotch argus
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| Male
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| Underside
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| Scientific classification
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Arthropoda
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| Class:
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Insecta
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| Order:
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Lepidoptera
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| Family:
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Nymphalidae
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| Genus:
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Erebia
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| Species:
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E. aethiops
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| Binomial name
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Erebia aethiops
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| Synonyms
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- Papilio ocellatus Goeze, 1779
- Papilio blandina Fabricius, 1787
- Erebia medusa Borkhausen, 1788
- Papilio medea Hubner, 1799-1800
- Erebia alcyone Stewart, 1817
- Erebia neoridas Freyer, 1833
- Erebia flavescens Tutt, 1896
- Erebia obsoleta Tutt, 1896
- Erebia ochracea Tutt, 1896
- Erebia freyeri Oberthur, 1909
- Erebia fritschi Oberthur, 1909
- Erebia cosinida Fruhstorfer, 1917
- Erebia depupillata Steiner, 1918
- Erebia magna Rocci, 1923
- Erebia biocellata Hartig, 1924
- Erebia reducta Hartig, 1924
- Erebia albofasciata Osthelder, 1925
- Erebia perfumosa Dannehl, 1925
- Erebia purpurea Sibille, 1927
- Erebia infasciata Warren, 1936
- Erebia pupillifer a Kolar, 1938
- Erebia amplevittata Holtz, 1939
- Erebia inocellata Owen, 1952
- Erebia binotata Popescu-Gorj, 1955
- Erebia demarginata Popescu-Gorj, 1955
- Erebia enucleata Popescu-Gorj, 1955
- Erebia mesorubria Popescu-Gorj, 1955
- Erebia jigodini Popescu-Gorj, 1955
- Erebia magdalena Krzywicki, 1963
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The Scotch argus (Erebia aethiops) is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. In spite of its English name argus, it is not a close relation of the brown argus nor the northern brown argus.