Coenonympha is a butterfly genus belonging to the Coenonymphina, a subtribe of the browns (Satyrinae). The latter are a subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies (Nymphalidae). As a rule, Palearctic species are colloquially called heaths, while Nearctic ones are called ringlets. Neither term is limited to members of this genus, however.

Selected species

Listed alphabetically:

• Coenonympha amaryllis Stoll, 1782

• Coenonympha ampelos Edwards, 1871 – northwest ringlet

• Coenonympha arcania (Linnaeus, 1761) – pearly heath

• Coenonympha arcanioides Pierret, 1837 – Moroccan pearly heath

• Coenonympha caeca Staudinger, 1886

• Coenonympha california Westwood, 1851 – California ringlet

• Coenonympha corinna (Hübner, 1804) – Corsican heath [Corsica, Sardinia, Elba]

Coenonympha darwiniana Staudinger, 1871 (sometimes in C. gardetta, or C. arcania × C. gardetta)

• Coenonympha (darwiniana) macromma Turati & Verity 1910

• Coenonympha × decolorata Wagner, 1913 (= C. mahometana × C. sunbecca)

• Coenonympha dorus (Esper, 1782) – dusky heath

• Coenonympha fettigii Oberthür, 1874

• Coenonympha gardetta (de Prunner, 1798) – Alpine heath [Alps, northern Balkans]

• Coenonympha glycerion (Borkhausen, 1788) – chestnut heath

• Coenonympha haydenii Edwards, 1872 – Hayden's ringlet, Wyoming ringlet, Yellowstone ringlet

• Coenonympha hero (Linnaeus, 1761) – scarce heath

• Coenonympha inornata Edwards, 1861 – prairie ringlet

• Coenonympha iphioides Staudinger, 1870 – Spanish heath

• Coenonympha kodiak Edwards, 1869 Kodiak ringlet

• Coenonympha leander Esper, 1784 Russian heath

• Coenonympha mahometana Alphéraky, 1881

• Coenonympha mangeri Bang Haas, 1927

• Coenonympha mongolica Alphéraky, 1881

• Coenonympha nipisiquit McDunnough, 1939 – maritime ringlet

• Coenonympha nolckeni Erschoff, 1874

• Coenonympha ochracea Edwards, 1861 – ocher ringlet

• Coenonympha oedippus (Fabricius, 1787) – false ringlet

• Coenonympha orientalis Rebel, 1909

• Coenonympha pamphilus (Linnaeus, 1758) – small heath

• Coenonympha pavonina Alphéraky, 1888

• Coenonympha rhodopensis Elwes, 1900 – eastern large heath [Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, N.Greece, Yugoslavia]

• Coenonympha saadi Kollar, 1849

• Coenonympha semenovi Alphéraky, 1887

• Coenonympha sinica Alphéraky, 1888

• Coenonympha sunbecca Eversmann, 1843

• Coenonympha symphita Lederer, 1870

• Coenonympha thyrsis Freyer, 1845

• Coenonympha tullia (Müller, 1764) – large heath, common ringlet

• Coenonympha tydeus Leech, 1892

• Coenonympha vaucheri Blachier, 1905 – Vaucher's heath

• Coenonympha xinjiangensis Chou & Huang, 1994

Gallery

Footnotes

References

• " at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms