ID request for type of Ringlet

shacklewell inquirer · #1 (**permalink**) 12-08-2007, 12:56 PM

Hi,

I saw several of these last week near Polloch (Strontian) in Sunart. I've got no field guide, so I thought I'd get the ID on the net, but nothing quite matches.

Looks like a Ringlet or Mountain Ringlet, but not exactly. The white dots inside the markings are different. It was patchy sunshine, on a boggy verge beside a single track road on the edge of a forest by the bridge over the River Polloch as it flows into Loch Shiel.

Hope someone can help...

glsammy · #2 (**permalink**) 12-08-2007, 01:02 PM

Welcome to WAB.

I've already identified it and named it. It's a Scotch Argus - Erebia aethiops.

There's no need to load images twice, if you've loaded to the unidentified Gallery and you then know the name, press the report image icon, (the red triangle) put the correct name and scientific name and I'll rename and move it for you.