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Images from Oleg Kosterin

Acraea violae 765x816 (~76Kb) uns male Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien beach, a wasting land behind Jomtien Holiday Hotel, 2nd January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Acraea violae 1152x958 (~98Kb) uns male Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, a small grassy swamp with cattail and reed, surrounded by trees, at the Jomtien beach, between B.O. Guesthouse and Jomtien Metro Condotel, 2nd February, 2005, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Acraea violae 660x942 (~95Kb) Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya environs, Ko Lan island, ruderal vegeation at a roadside. 15th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Acraea violae 927x732 (~119Kb) ups female Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien beach, a wasting land behind Jomtien Holiday Hotel, 2nd January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Acraea violae 1116x1077 (~146Kb) male female Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien beach, a wasting land behind Jomtien Holiday Hotel, 2nd January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Acraea violae 1042x852 (~79Kb) larva Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien beach, a wasting land behind Jomtien Holiday Hotel, 2nd January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Acraea violae 810x1224 (~111Kb) larva Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, a small grassy swamp with cattail and reed, surrounded by trees, at the Jomtien beach, between B.O. Guesthouse and Jomtien Metro Condotel, 12th January, 2006 (praepupa), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Acraea violae 1308x1000 (~169Kb) ups male Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien beach, a wasting land behind Jomtien Holiday Hotel, 2nd January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Cethosia cyane euanthes 1344x1122 (~198Kb) ups male Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien beach, a wasting land behind Jomtien Holiday Hotel, 4th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Cethosia cyane euanthes 589x847 (~88Kb) uns female Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien beach, a wasting land behind Jomtien Holiday Hotel, 2nd January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Cethosia cyane euanthes 736x893 (~97Kb) ups female Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien beach, a wasting land behind Jomtien Holiday Hotel, 2nd January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Cethosia cyane euanthes 1130x918 (~152Kb) uns male Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien beach, a wasting land behind Jomtien Holiday Hotel, 4th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Boloria sipora korla 800x600 (~99Kb) uns An ancient moraine at 3400 m above sea level in the Tyshkan River headwaters, 45 km NEN of Zharkent, 20 km NEN of village Sarybel', altitude of 3400 m, mountain massif Tyshkantau, the Southern Dzhungarian Alatau mountain chain (NE part of Tien Shan), Zharkent District, Taldy-Kurgan Province, SE Kazakhstan. 26th of July 1994, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Boloria napaea altaica 538x464 (~27Kb) ups uns male female Highland dwarf birch (Betula rotundifolia) tundras on a ledge of the southerm principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range between the Chikty and Akbul Rivulets, 2400 m above sea level, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West SIberia, Russia. 10th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Boloria napaea altaica 400x533 (~48Kb) uns male An alpine meadow, 2200 m above sea level, on the eastern spurs of the Katunskiy Mt. Range, the valley of the Argem (Direntai) stream, Central Altai Mts., West Siberia, Russia. 17th July, 1988 (on an Aster alpinum L. flower), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Boloria napaea altaica 652x500 (~54Kb) ups male female A damp meadow on the Samakha Rivulet bank in the hollow Step' Samakha, 1600 m above sea level, at the junction of Argut and Koksu Rivers, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, Central Altai Mts., West Siberia, Russia. 9th July, 1988 (on Bistorta bistorta), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Boloria frigidalis 960x588 (~107Kb) uns female A chionophylic alpine meadow in a cirque of one of the Chikty Rivulet sources, 2700 m above sea level, the southern principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West SIberia, Russia. 13th July 1998 (on Allium schoenoprasum), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Boloria frigidalis 597x400 (~38Kb) ups male A chionophylic alpine meadow in a cirque of one of the Chikty Rivulet sources, 2700 m above sea level, the southern principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West SIberia, Russia. 13th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Boloria frigidalis 300x496 (~17Kb) uns female An alpine meadow vegetation at a brook flowing in a moss/sedge tundra in a cirque of the sources of a rivulet descending from the southerm principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range between the Chikty and Akbul Rivulets, 2650 m above sea level, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 16 July 1998 (on Rhodiola algida (Ledeb.) Fisch. & Mey.), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Boloria frigidalis 864x712 (~99Kb) uns male A chionophylic alpine meadow in a cirque of one of the Chikty Rivulet sources, 2700 m above sea level, the southern principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West SIberia, Russia. 13th July 1998 (on Allium schoenoprasum), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Boloria frigidalis 482x654 (~23Kb) uns male A chionophylic alpine meadow in a cirque of one of the Chikty Rivulet sources, 2700 m above sea level, the southern principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West SIberia, Russia. 13th July 1998 (on Allium schoenoprasum), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Boloria aquilonaris banghaasi 533x400 (~50Kb) uns On the local dwarf birch Betula divaricata Ledeb. An Empetrum/lichen tundra alternating with dwarf pine Pinus pumila (Pall.) Regel elfin wood in the delta of the Burgauli River, the southern coast of the Koni Peninsula, Ola District, Magadan Province, Russia. 18th July, 1989, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Clossiana erubescens tianschanica 400x533 (~49Kb) uns An alpine meadow on the right bank terrace of the fourth tributary of the Sargir River (the Usek River basin), altitude 3200 m, 47 km NEN of Zharkent, 21 km NEN of village Sarybel', the mountain massif Tyshkantau, the Southern Dzhungarian Alatau mountain chain (NE part of Tien Shan), Zharkent District, Taldy-Kurgan Province, SE Kazakhstan. 27th of July 1994, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Clossiana selenis sibirica 532x326 (~51Kb) uns A southern steppefied slope of the mountain on the Chuya River right bank between the villages Kurai and Chagan-Uzun, Altai Mts., West SIberia, Russia. 7th July 1988, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Clossiana angarensis 533x400 (~45Kb) ups female An open larch (Larix gmelinii (Rupr.) Rupr.)/birch (Betula pendula Roth. and B. davurica Pallas) forest above the left bluff of the Budyumkan River valley 5 km of its confluence with the Argun' River 6 km S of the village Uryupino, Gazimurskozavodskoi District, E Chita Province, E Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 2nd August 1997, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Clossiana angarensis 352x299 (~22Kb) uns female A road in a larch (Larix gmelinii (Rupr.) Rupr.) 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, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Clossiana oscarus 488x400 (~38Kb) uns male A bushy meadow on the second right bank terrace of the Koen River at the Volchikha Rivulet just upstream of its fall into the Koen River near the village Nizhniy Koen, Iskitim District, Novosibirsk Province, West Siberia, Russia. 18th June, 1989, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Clossiana freija pallida 533x400 (~67Kb) uns female A dwarf birch (Betula rotundifolia Spach) montane tundra at 2200 m above sea level in the Argem (Direntai) Stream basin, 15 km W of the village Dzhazatr, on the eastern spurs of the Katunskiy Mt. Range, Kosh-Agach District, Central Altai Mts., West Siberia, Russia. 13th July, 1988, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Clossiana freija pallida 508x444 (~37Kb) ups male A meadowy-tundrous SW slope of a ridge between the headwaters of the Chikty Rivulet, 2600 m above sea level, the southern principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 10th July 1998 (on Aster alpinum L.), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Clossiana thore 374x506 (~29Kb) uns Among the dead branches of the Siberian dwarf pine (Pinus pumila Ledeb.) A forest/tundra on the Koni Peninsula, S Magadan Region, Russia. 11th of July 1989, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Clossiana frigga alpestris 872x600 (~56Kb) ups female Highland dwarf birch tundras on of the southerm principal slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain at the the Chikty Rivulet headwaters, 2400 m above sea level, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 15th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Clossiana frigga alpestris 900x592 (~98Kb) ups female A flowery alpine meadow in a valley of the rivulet descending from the southerm principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range between the Chikty and Akbul Rivulets, 2600 m above sea level, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 11th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Clossiana frigga alpestris 475x500 (~33Kb) uns male An alpine meadow vegetation at a brook flowing in a moss/sedge tundra in a cirque of the sources of a rivulet descending from the southerm principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range between the Chikty and Akbul Rivulets, 2650 m above sea level, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 16 July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Clossiana dia 533x400 (~44Kb) uns A dwarf birch (Betula rotundifolia Spach) montane tundra at 2200 m above sea level in the Argem (Direntai) Stream basin, 15 km W of the village Dzhazatr, on the eastern spurs of the Katunskiy Mt. Range, Kosh-Agach District, Central Altai Mts., West Siberia, Russia. 129 - 15th, 130 - 12th July, 1988, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Clossiana euphrosyne 533x400 (~50Kb) larva An open pine grove above the bluff of the valley of the Bol'shoi Elbash River, 5 km NW of the village Ust'-Chem, Iskitim dist., Novosibirsk region, West Siberia, 9th May 1995 (mature larva), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Proclossiana eunomia acidalia 533x400 (~49Kb) uns male An alpine meadow on a cirque bottom at 2500 m above sea level in the Argem (Direntai) Stream headwaters, 15 km W of the village Dzhazatr on the eastern spurs of the Katunskiy Mt. Range, Kosh-Agach District, Central Altai Mts., West Siberia, Russia. 19th July, 1988, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Issoria lathonia 672x556 (~115Kb) ups A road on a field surrounded by birch forests at the village Klyuchi, Iskitim District, Novosibirsk Province, West Siberia, Russia. 1st October 1988, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Issoria lathonia 1128x684 (~103Kb) uns male female A meadow in the Koyon River valley at the village Morozovo, Iskitim District, Novosibirsk Province, West Siberia, Russia. 25th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Kuekenthaliella eugenia montana 855x600 (~80Kb) ups male An alpine meadow/dwarf birch thickets in the valley of the Chikty Rivulet, 2500 m above sea level, the southern principal slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 13th July 1998 (on Betula rotundifolia), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Kuekenthaliella eugenia montana 500x539 (~41Kb) uns female An alpine meadow/dwarf birch thickets in the valley of the Chikty Rivulet, 2500 m above sea level, the southern principal slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 13th July 1998 (on Betula rotundifolia), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Kuekenthaliella eugenia montana 400x543 (~29Kb) uns male female An alpine meadow/dwarf birch thickets in the valley of the Chikty Rivulet, 2500 m above sea level, the southern principal slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 13th July 1998 (on Betula rotundifolia), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Kuekenthaliella eugenia montana 618x450 (~35Kb) uns male An alpine meadow/dwarf birch thickets in the valley of the Chikty Rivulet, 2500 m above sea level, the southern principal slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 13th July 1998 (on Betula rotundifolia), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Brenthis ino acrita 800x600 (~106Kb) larva A mature larva on its foodplant Filipendula ulmaria (L.) Maxim. Herbage on a bank of a Berd' River left bank mortlake just downstream of the village Legostaevo, Iskitim DIstrict, Novosibirsk Province, West Siberia, Russia. 13th June 1994, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Brenthis ino paidicus 533x400 (~50Kb) uns A long forb meadow at an edge of a riparian spruce forest on the Koksu River left bank few km upstream of its mouth, 1600 m above sea level, 12 km W of the village Dzhazatr, Kosh-Agach District, Central Altai Mts., West Siberia, Russia. 26th July, 1988, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Brenthis hecate 300x400 (~25Kb) uns Sparse stand of bushes on a dry southern slope of the coastal (the Black Sea) mountains above the settlement Kabardinka, Novorossiisk District, Gelendzhik District, Krasnodarskii Krai Province, Russia. 6th June 1990, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Brenthis hecate warren 576x496 (~48Kb) uns A steppefied southern slope of small mountains on the Dzhazator River right bank in front of the Akbul Rivulet mouth, 2000 m above sea level, between the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range and the Ukok Plateau, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 19th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Argynnis paphia 621x414 (~48Kb) A long forb meadow at the Adagum River right bank, the town Krymsk, Krymsk District, Krasnodarskii Krai Province, S Russia. 27th June 1991 (A small congregation on a large inflorescence of Heracleum dissectum), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Argynnis paphia 533x400 (~48Kb) uns male female A pine forest edge, Akademgorodok [Academy Town], Novosibirsk, West Siberia, Russia. 11th July 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Fabriciana niobe changaica 488x718 (~33Kb) ups male A meadow on the Adon-Chelon elevation, at the mountain Tsagan-Obo, SE Chita Province (Dahuria), Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 9th July 1996 (A male catched by a Thomisidae spider on an inflorescence of Veronica sibirica L), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Fabriciana niobe changaica 534x600 (~51Kb) uns male female A subalpine short forb meadow on an opening in an open larch forest on the southern principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range between the Chikty and Akbul Rivulets , 2100 m above sea level, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 16th July 1998 (on Aster alpinum L.), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Fabriciana niobe changaica 533x400 (~50Kb) ups male A meadow on the Adon-Chelon elevation, at the mountain Tsagan-Obo, SE Chita Province (Dahuria), Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 9th July 1996 (A male catched by a Thomisidae spider on an inflorescence of Veronica sibirica L.), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Fabriciana adippe zarevna 796x358 (~76Kb) larva The pine forest called Tsasucheiskii Bor at the village Nizhnii Tsasuchei, Onon District, Chita Province, SE Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 18th June 1995 (mature larva), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Argyreus hyperbius 658x514 (~114Kb) ups An opening in a Cryptomeria forest at the top of Kongo Mt., Temporin temple complex, the border of Osaka and Nara Prefectures, Honshu, Japan, 3rd August 2002, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Argyreus hyperbius 765x634 (~117Kb) uns An opening in a Cryptomeria forest at the top of Kongo Mt., Temporin temple complex, the border of Osaka and Nara Prefectures, Honshu, Japan, 3rd August 2002, Photo © Oleg Kosterin