The Magdalena alpine (Erebia magdalena) is a member of the subfamily Satyrinae of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in North America from Montana, Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico, and in Canada in a small part of the Willmore Wilderness Park, Alberta, and adjacent British Columbia, in Stone Mountain Provincial Park in northern British Columbia, and on an isolated nunatak in Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon. The habitat consists of rockslides near vegetation, at or above the treeline.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Erebia |
| Species: | E. magdalena
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| Binomial name | |
| Erebia magdalena | |
The wingspan is 41–45 mm. The wings are black above and below.[3] Adults are on the wing from late June and July.[4]
The larvae probably feed on grasses, sedges or rushes.[2]
Subspecies
edit- E. m. magdalena
- E. m. hilchie Kemal & Koçak, 2007 (northern Rocky Mountains, west-central Alberta and east-central British Columbia)
Similar species
edit- Mt. McKinley alpine (E. mackinleyensis)
References
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Wikispecies has information related to Erebia magdalena.
- ^ "Erebia Dalman, 1816" Archived 2017-04-20 at the Wayback Machine at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ a b "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Archived from the original on 2022-02-20.
- ^ "BAMONA". Archived from the original on 2016-01-26. Retrieved 2017-02-23.
- ^ Magdalena Alpine (Erebia magdalena), Butterflies of Canada