Ross' Alpine (Erebia rossii Curtis)
Wing span: 1 5/8 - 1 7/8 inches (4.1 - 4.7 cm).
Identification: Forewing upperside with 1 to 3 subapical black white-centered eyespots surrounded by a red-orange ring. Underside of hindwing with a pale postmedian band.
Life history: Not reported.
Flight: One brood from middle June to middle July.
Caterpillar hosts: Sedges.
Habitat: Wet tundra and rock slides.
Range: Holarctic. Alaska eastward along the Arctic tundra to northern Manitoba, Southhampton Island and Baffin Island. Populations in northern Quebec and northern British Columbia
