Erebia pandrose
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
Erebia pandrose, the dewy ringlet, is a member of the subfamily Satyrinae of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from the Arctic areas of northern Europe, the Pyrenees, Alps, the Apennine Mountains, the Carpathian Mountains, Kola Peninsula and Kanin Peninsula, part of the Ural and the Altai and Sayan Mountains up to Mongolia.
The wingspan is 30–38 mm. The forewing upperside ground colour is brown adorned with an orange postmedian band interspersed by the veins and marked with a line of blind black ocelli. The hind wing upperside has line of discrete orange spots each centered with a blind black ocella.
The underside of the forewings is copper orange with a line of blind black ocelli, the hindwing undersides are mottled beige grey and brown with a lighter broad band. E. lappona Esp. (= manto Frr., zilia Bkh.) (37 i). Upperside of both wings black-brown, somewhat glossy, the ground-colour of the female lighter, more grey-brown. The forewing with a rather broad russet brown band which does not reach the hindmargin and bears 4 black ocelli without pupils, the 2 upper ones standing close together and being somewhat shifted proximad. The band is not always equally... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vanoise National Park | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 2 | Hohe Tauern National Park | 🇦🇹 Austria | |
| 3 | Mercantour National Park | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 4 | Triglav National Park | 🇸🇮 Slovenia |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Dewy Ringlet sighting in Vanoise National Park on a given day, based on 26 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 40th most-seen of the 308 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June and July
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Dewy Ringlet in Vanoise National Park on a given day, against under 5% in September to May, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Dewy Ringlet sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Yes
Of the 4 parks where we can rate Dewy Ringlet sightings, Vanoise National Park has the highest daily chance: about 20%. Next come Hohe Tauern National Park (Austria, about 10%) and Mercantour National Park (France, about 10%).
Same genus: Erebia
The closest relatives of the Dewy Ringlet that you can see in Vanoise National Park (genus Erebia, Alpines) are Common Brassy Ringlet (about 40%), Large Ringlet (about 30%) and Almond Ringlet (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Dewy Ringlet is recorded against all the insects logged in Vanoise National Park (26 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
