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Coenonympha pamphilus
Common and widespread Butterfly throughout Britain.
Larvaes are a leafy green color with a green stripe running along its back and stripes a lighter shade of green on its sides.
It has pink anal points, a protrusion at the end of the Caterpillar.
The Larvae feeds on a wide range of grass species.
Forewing beneath reddish yellow, bordered with grey and bearing a small pupilled apical ocellus; hindwing diluted with grey, with a shortened, curved, whitish median band shaded with brown.
The ocelli are generally completely absent or only indicated by faint and indistinct vestiges of dots or rings.
Flight period is from May-September.