Satyridae

Eleven resident species found in the British Isles. For more information on these, and other butterflies, visit this site http://www.butterflies-r-us.co.uk

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Common Name	Latin Name	Food plant(s)	Description
Speckled Wood	Pararge aegeria	Grasses	Pale green with faint white and yellow lines. Fairly common
Wall	Lasiommata megera	Native coarse grasses	Bluish green with faint white stripes. The Wall Brown is common throughout England, Ireland and Wales.
Mountain Ringlet	Erebia epiphron	Mat-grass	Bluish-green with darker stripe dorsally, whitish stripes along the subdorsal. Restricted to the mountains of the Lake District and those in Scotland
Scotch Argus	Erebia aethiops	Purple or Blue Moor Grass	Pale grey-green with green stripes. A northern species, locally common in Scotland, most English colonies are extinct.
Marbled White	Melanargia galthea	Red Fescue, Sheep's Fescue, Timothy and Tor Grass	Yellow-green with darker dorsal line. Restricted range
Grayling	Hipparchia semele	Bristle Bent, Sheep's Fescue and other fine grasses	Off-white, blackish-brown dorsal line, greenish-brown head. Locally common in southern Wales and England, largely confined to the coast
Gatekeeper	Pyronia tithonus	Wild grasses, such as Bents, Fescues and Meadow Grasses.	Fawn or grey with a green tinge with dark lines and short hairs. Common wherever wild grasses and shrubs grow in all southern England counties
Meadow Brown	Maniola jurtina	Wild Grasses	Bright green with dark green line, spiracles are pinkish and small. Common
Small Heath	Coenonympha pamphilus	Fescues and Bents	Green with dark stripes and pink and white pointed tails. Widely distributed
Large Heath	Coemonympha tullia	White-beaked Sedge and Cotton Grass	Green, dark green line bordered with white stripes. Northern species.
Ringlet	Aphantopus hyperantus	Tufted Hairgrass, Couch and Annual Meadow Grass	Pale brown with a dark stripe down the back and pale pink and white stripes along the sides. Fairly common in much of England, Wales and Ireland