Euphydryas intermedia synonym ichnea (Boisduval, [1833]) is a small butterfly found in the Palearctic (Alps, Middle and South Ural, in the taiga zone and the West Siberian Lowland, South Siberia and the Russian Far East, Sakhalin, Mongolia, Northeast China, North Korea) that belongs to the browns family.

The discal macular band,which is whitish yellow in the other forms, is here so much shaded with brown that it scarcely contrasts at all with the red-brown diffuse spots in the distal area of the wings.

Beneath the entire costal and apical areas of the forewing are paler, only two black-edged cell-spots remaining deep red-brown; on the hindwing beneath the yellow marginal spots are larger and the black line dividing the yellow median band is partly vestigial, partly obsolete.

is a very brightly coloured intermedia in which the black dots in the reddish yellow submarginal band of the hindwing are especially prominent.

Larva black, glossy, with thick soft black thorns, on the back a double, on the sides a simple row of small light yellow spots, between which there are small dots; until May on a great variety of plants, as Veronica, etc., but especially on bushes of, for instance, poplar, willow, ash, etc.