Erebia pandrose, the dewy ringlet, is a member of the subfamily Satyrinae of the family Nymphalidae .

The forewing upperside ground colour is brown adorned with an orange postmedian band interspersed by the veins and marked with a line of blind black ocelli.

The hind wing upperside has line of discrete orange spots each centered with a blind black ocella .

The forewing with a rather broad russet brown band which does not reach the hindmargin and bears 4 black ocelli without pupils, the 2 upper ones standing close together and being somewhat shifted proximad.

The forewing beneath with the central area russet -brown, the costal and distal margins being dusted with white-grey or bluish white, and the hindmargin black-brown.

The hindwing beneath whitish or bluish grey with a median band which is bordered both proximally and distally by a thin brown dentate line.

has the upperside duller in colour, bearing 2 subapical dots; the very evenly leaden-grey underside of the hindwing is traversed by 2 sharply marked black-brown dentate line.

which occurs in the Central Pyrenees, the distal band of the forewing is not russet-brown but yellowish red, being proximally but indistinctly or not at all defined.

In May it changes into an obtuse pupa, which lies free on the ground and has the anterior part of the body green and the abdomen brownish.

It flies especially on stony slopes with a sparse covering of grass and settles by preference on the ground, visiting flowers but rarely.