Dorset butterflies in the browns family include:

Butterfly with brown edges to its wings, and orange inside areas with dark slashes and eyespots on the forewwings.

Gatekeeper

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Brown butterfly seen from the side; hind upperwing in shades of brown with glimpse of eyespot on upperwing

Grayling

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Butterfly with striking white and black markings

Marbled White

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Side view of a butterfly with plainish hindwings and orange forewing with a black eyespot within which is one white dot

Meadow Brown

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Side view of dark brown butterfly with spots formed of yellow rings filled iwth black, then a white spot in the centre.

Ringlet

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Two brown and orange butterflies on a purple flower

Small Heath

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Dark brown butterfly with cream spots on a fern

Speckled Wood

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Orange butterfly with a lot of mid brown lines and marks, plus black eyespots with small white dots in centre

Wall Brown

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Notes

This website covers only the browns found in Dorset. Other browns in the UK are Large Heath, Mountain Ringlet and Scotch Argus.