{{Short description|Species of butterfly}} {{Speciesbox | name = African ringlet | image = Ypthima asterope 2.jpg | image_caption = Dorsal view of nominate race in Turkey | image2 = Common Three Ring-SavanDurga Bangalore rural.jpg | image2_caption = ''Y. a. mahratta'' in southern India | taxon = Ypthima asterope | authority = (Klug, 1832)<ref name=funet/> | synonyms = * ''Hipparchia asterope'' <small>Klug, 1832</small> * ''Ypthima mahratta'' * ''Ypthima hereroica'' * ''Ypthima asterope'' ab. ''simpliciocellata'' <small>Strand, 1909</small> * ''Ypthima asterope'' ab. ''hereroica'' <small>Grünberg, 1910</small> }}

'''''Ypthima asterope''''', the '''African ringlet''' or '''common three-ring''',<ref name=funet/><ref name=Smetacek/> is a species of Satyrinae butterfly found in most dry areas of Africa and Asia.<ref name=funet>{{Cite web|url=http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/satyrinae/ypthima/|title=Ypthima Hübner, 1818 Rings Ringlets|last=Savela|first=Markku|website=Lepidoptera - Butterflies and Moths|access-date=2018-03-18}}</ref><ref name=Smetacek>{{Cite book|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287980260|title=A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India|last1=R.K.|first1=Varshney|last2=Smetacek|first2=Peter|publisher=Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi|year=2015|isbn=978-81-929826-4-9|location=New Delhi|pages=180–181|doi=10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164}}</ref>

The wingspan is 30–34&nbsp;mm in males and 32–38&nbsp;mm in females. Adults are on wing year round with peaks in summer and autumn in southern Africa. There is one generation per year.<ref>{{cite book|last=Woodhall |first=Steve |title=Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa |year=2005 |location=Cape Town, South Africa |publisher=Struik |isbn=978-1-86872-724-7 }}</ref>

The larvae feed on grasses (Poaceae). Larvae have been reared on ''Ehrharta erecta''.

==Subspecies== The species may be divided into the following subspecies: *''Ypthima asterope asterope'' (Arabia, Turkey, northern tropical Africa) *''Ypthima asterope mahratta'' <small>Moore, 1884</small> (India)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/butterfliesvolii00bing#page/62/mode/2up/|title=Fauna of British India. Butterflies Vol. 1|last=Bingham|first=Charles Thomas|author-link=Charles Thomas Bingham|year=1905|pages=62}}</ref><ref name=MooreIndica>{{Cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36597#page/229/mode/1up|title=Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. II|last=Moore|first=Frederic|author-link=Frederic Moore|publisher=Lovell Reeve and Co.|year=1893|location=London|pages=211}}</ref> *''Ypthima asterope hereroica'' <small>van Son, 1955</small> (southern Africa, Namibia)

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asterope Category:Butterflies of Africa Category:Butterflies of Asia Category:Insects of the Middle East Category:Butterflies described in 1832 Category:Taxa named by Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug

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