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Images from Oleg Kosterin

Tanaecia julii bougainvillei 912x745 (~172Kb) female Thailand, Phuket, an old Gewea plantation overgrown with wild vegetation on a steep eastern slope to a brook valley near Ban Sakhu, 16th February 2009, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Bassarona recta monilis 768x801 (~102Kb) male Thailand, Chantaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a stony bed of a rivulet among the tropical forest above the Krating falls. 6th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Bassarona recta monilis 816x612 (~79Kb) ups male Thailand, Chantaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a stony bed of a rivulet among the tropical forest above the Krating falls. 6th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Cyrestis thyodamas 1109x896 (~215Kb) ups Thailand, Chantaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a bank of a rivulet among the tropical forest above the Krating falls. 5th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Cyrestis thyodamas 1045x761 (~163Kb) uns Thailand, Chantaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a bank of a rivulet among the tropical forest above the Krating falls. 5th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Chersonesia intermedia 1046x803 (~172Kb) ups The Krating river flowing through an evergreen tropical forest just above the waterfalls, the Khao-Khitchakut National Park, Chanthaburi Province, Thailand. 5th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Chersonesia risa 836x769 (~143Kb) uns Thailand, Phuket, Kathu Waterfalls, 25th February 2010, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Ariadne ariadne 1112x818 (~119Kb) ups Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien beach, a wasting land behind Jomtien Holiday Hotel, 2nd January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Apatura ilia praeclara 800x600 (~97Kb) uns male A road crossing a woody (Larix gmelinii (Rupr.) Rupr.) brook valley between the villages Budyumkan and Uryupino 5-7 km of the former, Gazimurskozavodskoi District, E Chita Province, E Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 25th July 1997, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Apatura metis substituta 800x600 (~110Kb) uns female The Onon River left bank floodland, 5 km upstream of the village Nizhnii Tsasuchei, SE Chita Province, Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia, 1st July 1996, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Apatura metis substituta 800x600 (~99Kb) male The Onon River righht bank floodland, 7 km upstream of the village Nizhnii Tsasuchei, SE Chita Province, Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia, 5th July 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Apatura metis substituta 533x400 (~43Kb) uns male The Onon River righht bank floodland, 7 km upstream of the village Nizhnii Tsasuchei, SE Chita Province, Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia, 1st July 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Apatura metis irtyshika 400x300 (~39Kb) ups male Wet ground, at willow thickets, on a bank of the Irtysh River left arm within the Omsk City, West Siberia, Russia. 30th August 1994, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Araschnia levana 848x518 (~44Kb) uns male female The Shadrikha Rivulet valley, Novosibirsk District and Region, West Siberia, Russia. 2nd of June 1995 (mating), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Araschnia levana 687x491 (~35Kb) ups female A woody left bank of a Izdrevaya Rivulet 1 km upstream its fall into the Inya River, Novosibirsk District and Province, West Siberia, Russia. 8th June 1997 (rather late for this form), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Araschnia levana f. prorsa 524x394 (~16Kb) ups Tall herbage on a woody Bol'shoi Tesh River right bank 7 km NEE of the village Kuzedeevo, the piedmonts of Gornaya Shoria Mts., Novokuznetsk District., Kemerovo Province, West Siberia, Russia. 27th July 1996, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Araschnia burejana 665x942 (~84Kb) uns floweer clump, Chihaya-akasaka-mura, Minami-kawachi-gun, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. 3th August 2002, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Araschnia burejana 800x600 (~131Kb) larva shady brook bank in a larch (Larix gmelinii) forest not far from the Argun' River left bank between the village Uryupino and the Gazimur River, Gazimurskozavodskoi District, E Chita Province, E Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 31th July 1997 (A mature larva on its foodplant Urtica angustifolia Fischer ex Hornem), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Araschnia burejana 823x616 (~65Kb) ups floweer clump, Chihaya-akasaka-mura, Minami-kawachi-gun, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. 3th August 2002, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Symbrenthia lilaea 727x722 (~55Kb) uns Thailand, Chantaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a bank of a rivulet among the tropical forest above the Krating falls. 5th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Symbrenthia lilaea 1206x860 (~221Kb) ups Thailand, Chantaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a bank of a rivulet among the tropical forest above the Krating falls. 6th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Symbrenthia lilaea 842x942 (~112Kb) uns Thailand, Chantaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a bank of a rivulet among the tropical forest above the Krating falls. 5th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Symbrenthia lilaea 582x708 (~129Kb) ups Thailand, Chantaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a bank of a rivulet among the tropical forest above the Krating falls. 5th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Symbrenthia lilaea 1332x1204 (~235Kb) ups Thailand, Chantaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a bank of a rivulet among the tropical forest above the Krating falls. 5th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Vanessa indica 400x300 (~41Kb) ups male The hill Kuruntei 15 km upstream of the village Nizhnii Tsasuchei, Onon district, Chita Province, S Transbaikalia (Dahuria), Siberia, Russia. 6th July 1996, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Vanessa indica 600x800 (~114Kb) uns male The hill Kuruntei 15 km upstream of the village Nizhnii Tsasuchei, Onon district, Chita Province, S Transbaikalia (Dahuria), Siberia, Russia. 6th July 1996, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Nymphalis xanthomelas 533x400 (~51Kb) larva The Izdrevaya Rivulet valley meadow 1 km of its mouth, surroundings of Novosibirsk, West Siberia, Russia. 22nd June 1996 (A colony of caterpillars on a willow branch hanging just above the water), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Nymphalis xanthomelas 800x600 (~115Kb) uns A road in the woody (pine/birch) Zyryanka Rivulet valley, Botanical Garden, Akademgorodok [Academy Town], Novosibirsk, West Siberia, Russia. 11th April 1997, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Nymphalis urticae 474x671 (~25Kb) pupa Nettle (Urtica cannabina L.) thickets in ravines on the south- exposed slopes of the mountain Kuku-Khadan on the northern bank of Lake Zun-Torei, Onon District, SE Chita Province, Siberia, Rissia (just at the Mongolian border) (A just hatched pupa, still soft and not fully coloured, which is sucked by a group of bugs (not carnivorous ones!)). 24th June 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Nymphalis urticae 636x574 (~43Kb) uns An Irtysh River left arm within the city of Omsk, West Siberia, Russia. 29th July 1998 (on Butomus umbellatus), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Nymphalis urticae 800x600 (~112Kb) ups male female The Zyryanka Rivulet valley, the surroundings of Akademgorodok [Academy Town], Novosibirsk, West Siberia, Russia. 7th April 1995 (Playing male and female), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Nymphalis urticae 400x533 (~52Kb) pupa Nettle (Urtica cannabina L.) thickets in ravines on the south-exposed slopes of the mountain Kuku-Khadan on the northern bank of Lake Zun-Torei, Onon District, SE Chita Province, Siberia, Rissia (just at the Mongolian border). 24th June 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Nymphalis caschmirensis nixa 533x400 (~60Kb) ups A large-stoned scree, at about 2500 m altitude in the headwaters of the Artuch River, Fanskie Gory - a mountain massif between the Zeravshanskii and Ghissarskii mountain ranges, Tadjikistan. 30th April 1991, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Nymphalis antiopa 797x400 (~63Kb) larva An edge of a riparian poplar wood in the valley of the Shivilig- Khem River just leaving the mountains, the southern foot of the East Tannu-Ola mounatin range, Tes-Khem District, Tuva Republic, Siberia, Russia. 17th July 1990, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Nymphalis io 533x400 (~49Kb) ups A valley meadow at the Shadrikha Rivulet at the village Mel'nichikha, Novosibirsk District and Province, West Siberia, Russia. 24th May 1992, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Nymphalis c-aureum 762x626 (~81Kb) uns A small pond in the forest, Seonheul-ri, Jocheon-eup, Bukjeju-gun, Jeju-do Island, S Korea. 31st of July 2002, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Nymphalis c-aureum 655x918 (~115Kb) ups A small pond in the forest, Seonheul-ri, Jocheon-eup, Bukjeju-gun, Jeju-do Island, S Korea. 31st of July 2002, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Nymphalis c-album 742x478 (~47Kb) The Bol'shoy Tesh River right bank in its low reaches, 2 km upstream of its junction with the Kondoma River. 17th September 1994 (butterflies greedily suck a rotten Gastromyces fungus (?Lycoperdales gen. sp.)), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Junonia orithya wallacei 1172x885 (~128Kb) ups male Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya environs, Ko Lan island, ruderal vegeation at a roadside. 15th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Junonia orithya wallacei 801x817 (~126Kb) uns Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, a vasting land behind the Jomtien beach, 1th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Junonia hierta 713x867 (~72Kb) uns Thailand, Chanthaburi, Khao-Kitchakut National Park, the park at the headquarters. 4th January 2006 , Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Junonia hierta 753x641 (~57Kb) ups Cambodia, Siem Reap, Angkor Wat. 8th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Junonia hierta 689x765 (~81Kb) ups Thailand, Chanthaburi, Khao-Kitchakut National Park, the park at the headquarters. 4th January 2006 , Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Junonia hierta 753x957 (~98Kb) uns Thailand, Chanthaburi, Khao-Kitchakut National Park, the park at the headquarters. 4th January 2006 , Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Junonia hierta 967x834 (~78Kb) ups Cambodia, Siem Reap, Angkor Wat. 8th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Junonia hierta 681x857 (~59Kb) uns Cambodia, Siem Reap, Angkor Wat. 8th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Junonia iphita horsfieldi 869x800 (~236Kb) uns Thailand, Phuket, the Khao Phra Theo National Park, the lower reaches of Bang Pae brook. 19th February 2009, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Junonia iphita horsfieldi 606x800 (~158Kb) uns Thailand, Phuket, a bank of a pond at a road 1 km NE of Khao Sai Tan Kliang Mt., 18th February 2009, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Junonia atlites 1157x927 (~111Kb) ups Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien beach, a wasting land behind Jomtien Holiday Hotel, 2nd January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Junonia atlites 1076x875 (~111Kb) uns Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Si Racha environs, the Chan-ta-Then River valley at lower reaches, 14th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Junonia atlites 1153x1067 (~138Kb) Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Si Racha environs, the Chan-ta-Then River valley at lower reaches, 14th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Junonia almana 612x772 (~60Kb) uns Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Si Racha environs, the Chan-ta-Then River valley at lower reaches, 14th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Junonia almana 779x791 (~111Kb) ups Thailand, Chantaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a park at the headquarters, 7th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Junonia almana 680x878 (~52Kb) Thailand, Chon Buri Province, a small pool at the lake at Bang Phra. 1st February 2005, Photo © Oleg Kosterin