Scotch argus

Scotch argus
Male
Underside
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Erebia
Species:
E. aethiops
Binomial name
Erebia aethiops
(Esper, 1777)
Synonyms
List
  • 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

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.