Genus Coenonympha - Ringlets

Heaths (Europe)

Coenonympha Hübner, 1819: Type species: Papilio geticus Esper (= Coenonympha oedippus (Fabricius))

Phryne Herrich-Schäffer, [1844]. Type species: Papilio tircis Stoll

Triphysa Zeller, 1850. Type species: Papilio tircis Stoll

Chortobius [Dunning & Pickard], 1858. Type species: Papilio pamphilus Linnaeus

Lyela Swinhoe, 1908. Type species: Lyela macmahoni Swinhoe

Dubierebia Muschamp, 1915. Type species: Erebia myops Staudinger

Sicca Verity, 1953. Type species: Papilio dorus Esper

Sinonympha Lee, 1974. Type species: Sinonympha amoena Lee

Coenonympha is a primarily Eurasian genus, with only two species [usually] recognized in North America, and at least one of these also widespread in Eurasia. There is much debate about species limits in this genus, and some would have C. tullia as found in North America divided into multiple species, each representing local populations, as well as considered entirely distinct from Eurasian C. tullia. In North America the genus is found mostly in northern and mountain regions, as well as far south as far as northern Baja California along the Pacific coast.