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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subfamily: | Satyrinae |
| Tribe: | Satyrini |
| Subtribe: | Erebiina |
| Genus: | Erebiola Fereday, 1879 |
| Species: | E. butleri
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| Binomial name | |
| Erebiola butleri Fereday, 1879[1]
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Erebiola butleri, or Butler's ringlet, is an elusive New Zealand endemic butterfly, discovered in 1879 by John Enys at the alpine pass at the head of the Rakaia River.[2][3] It is the only member of the genus Erebiola.
Erebiola is derived from Erebus, the ancient Greek world of darkness between Earth and Hades, while the specific name, butleri, was after Arthur Gardiner Butler of the British Museum who played a major role in early descriptions of New Zealand butterflies.
Its Māori name is pepe pouri, which means dark moth, and shares the name with the black mountain ringlet and the forest ringlet butterfly.[4]
- ^ "Erebiola Fereday, 1879" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Fereday, Richard William (1880). "Description of a new genus and species of buttery of the sub-family Satyrinae". The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 16: 128–130 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ "The Rare Butterfly". The Press. Vol. LIX, no. 17713. Fairfax Media. 15 March 1923.
- ^ "Other Butterflies". Monarch Butterfly New Zealand Trust. Retrieved 11 March 2015.