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title: "Chestnut Heath"
description: "Coenonympha glycerion — Insetos e aranhas. Coenonympha glycerion, the chestnut heath, is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/chestnut-heath
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Chestnut Heath

> Coenonympha glycerion — Insetos e aranhas. Coenonympha glycerion, the chestnut heath, is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae.

- Scientific name: *Coenonympha glycerion*
- Category: `insects` (Insetos e aranhas)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Campos e prados)
- iNaturalist observations: 7765
- Wikidata: [Q1089527](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1089527)
- iNaturalist taxon: [349275](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/349275)

## Names

- en: Chestnut Heath
- de: Rotbraunes Wiesenvögelchen
- es: Ninfa de Borkhausen
- fr: Fadet de la mélique
- nl: Roodstreephooibeestje
- pl: Strzępotek glicerion

## Countries with the most observations

RU (1755), AT (1146), ES (499), DE (494), FR (364), FI (363), LT (350), PL (347), UA (298), HU (278), CZ (244), RO (211)

## Summary

Coenonympha glycerion, the chestnut heath, is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae. It is also known as Coenonympha iphis. It can be found in Eastern Europe and east across the Palearctic to Siberia and the Caucasus to North Korea.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coenonympha_glycerion

## Photo

![Chestnut Heath](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/chestnut-heath/medium.jpg)

Photo: Liubov Ilminska · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/236994560

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/chestnut-heath?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).