Coenonympha hero, the scarce heath, is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae.

On the underside itself the ocelli are placed in orange rings, and on their basal side there is a straight white line, which is thickened into knots on the veins.

stolida Schilde, from Scandinavia, is smaller and darker, and the forewing bears a white distal band on their underside.

(48a), which in Eastern Asia occurs among the nymotypical form, but locally also flies alone, the white band before the row of ocelli on the underside of the hindwing is much widened.

In Europe the butterflies are on the wing in June and July, in Eastern Asia according to Graeser in two broods; in woods of leaved trees and in meadows « overgrown with bushes.