Ringlet – Aphantopus hyperantus
is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is only one of the numerous “ringlet” butterflies in the tribe Satyrini. The Ringlet Aphantopus hyperantus is a widely distributed species found throughout much of the Palearctic ecozone.In Europe it is common in most countries but absent from northern Scandinavia, peninsular Italy (found in North Italy), Portugal, Southern and central Spain (found in Cantabrian Mountains and the eastern Pyrenees), the Mediterranean islands and North Africa.In Greece it is found in Northern regions (Macedonia, Thessaly ) Beyond Europe it is found across much of temperate Asia including Russia, Siberia, Mongolia, China and Korea. They live in grassy, moist or dry forest clearings with bushes but not in open places. There is a strong degree of attachment to woodland edges and blackberry bushes. The insect can also be very common where there are creeping thistles (Cirsium arvense) or swamp thistles (Cirsium palustre), oregano (Origanum vulgare), Forest scabious (Knautia sylvatica), or hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) which are favourite foodplants of the imagos. The males fly in search of newly hatched females in slow, uninterrupted flight and flutter round, about and between grass stems. The imagos fly in one generation from mid June to late August.