Aulocera merlina is a butterfly found in the east Palearctic that belongs to the browns family (Nymphalidae).

[1] It is endemic to Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in China.

Subspecies A. m. pulcheristriata Huang, 2001 is described from Tibet (type locality between Quzhu and Genong, Nujiang Valley, Tibet).

In size, facies and colour similar to circe, but on the forewing the portion of the white band which lies below the apical ocellus is divided by the interposition of black spots, and the cell of the forewing beneath bears a white longitudinal stripe.

In western China, widely distributed, and not rare, from June till August.