Coenonympha gardetta

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| name = Alpine heath

| image = Coenonympha gardetta male - Val da Fain.jpg

| image_caption = C. gardetta male - Heutal (Val da Fain), Switzerland

| image2 = Coenonympha gardetta gardetta 01 (HS).JPG

| taxon = Coenonympha gardetta

| authority = (de Prunner, 1798){{Verify source|date=February 2011}}

| synonyms = *Papilio satyrion Esper, 1805

• Papilio philea (Hübner, 1800)
• Papilio neoclides (Hübner, 1805)

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Coenonympha gardetta, the Alpine heath, is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae. It can be in alpine meadows on heights of 800 to 2,900 from the Massif Central to Albania.

Image:Coenonympha gardetta gardetta 02 (HS).JPG

The length of the forewings is 15–16 mm. Seitz treats it as a subspecies of C. arcana -satyrion Esp. (48 d) is a mountain form from the Carpathian Mts., which differs greatly from the nymotype: on the upperside the male is mouse-grey and the female brownish-grey, almost unicolorous; on the underside the white distal band is of even width and bears the very regular row of distinct ocelli exactly in its centre; from about 4000–7000 feet.Seitz. A. in Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren){{PD-notice}}

Adults are on wing from June to September. There is one generation per year.

The larvae feed on various grasses.