Wingspan: 25–32 mm
Flight period: in several generations from March to October
Larval food plants: species in the grass family (f. Poaceae)
Small Heath (Coenonympha pamphilus) is a small butterfly from the Satyridae family. It is a fairly variable species, but it is still easy to recognize. The upperside of its wings is more or less a uniform ochre to light brown color, only a narrow band along the outer edge is somewhat darker, in the upper outer corner of the forewings it has a more or less smeared eye-spot pattern. The forewings are on the underside orange-brown with a grayish border, in the outer upper corner there is a distinctly black eye-spot outlined with a yellowish ring. The hindwings on the underside are brownish gray with a lighter wavy band in the middle of the upper edge, at the outer edge it has a row of small white eye-spots, which in some individuals are completely obscured.
The Small Heath is one of the most common day-flying butterflies in our country and can be observed flying in almost all grassy places from the sea to the highest peaks.
