Coenonympha corinna

Coenonympha corinna, the Corsican heath, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae It is found on the Mediterranean islands of Corsica, Sardinia, Elba, and Giannutri.

Upperside brilliant yellowish red with broad black apex on all the wings; on the forewing the black colour extends as a submarginal stripe as far as the inner angle.

On the underside the hindwing is uniformly yellowish red with a small apical ocellus; the hindwing has a darker basal area, and in the lighter marginal portion bears small ocelli of a very diverse development.

— elbana Stgr., from the island of Elba, has the apical ocellus of the upperside without pupil and the ocelli of the underside of the hindwing are larger.

In Sardinia, Corsica and Sicily, locally very plentiful, in May and June and again from July onward.