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Images from Oleg Kosterin

Papilio demoleus malayanus 696x792 (~84Kb) Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya environs, Ko Lan island, ruderal vegeation at a roadside. 15th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Papilio polytes romulus 1034x910 (~198Kb) Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Si Racha environs, the Chan-ta-Then River valley at lower reaches, 12th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Papilio polytes romulus 1094x883 (~157Kb) ups Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Si Racha environs, the Chan-ta-Then River valley at lower reaches, 12th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Papilio polytes romulus 1200x918 (~157Kb) uns Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Si Racha environs, the Chan-ta-Then River valley at lower reaches, 12th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Papilio memnon agenor 1223x992 (~226Kb) ups male Thailand, Phuket, Kathu Waterfalls, 25th February 2010, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Atrophaneura nox erebus 1148x840 (~281Kb) ups male Thailand, Phuket, the Khao Phra Theo National Park, the lower reaches of Bang Pae brook. 27th February 2009, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Atrophaneura coon doubledayi 712x882 (~166Kb) male female Thailand, Phuket, the Khao Phra Theo National Park, a bamboo forest on a flat watershed between the headwaters of the Bang Pae and Ton Sai brooks. 19th February 2009, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Atrophaneura coon doubledayi 1108x792 (~215Kb) ups female Thailand, Phuket, the Khao Phra Theo National Park, the lower reaches of Bang Pae brook. 27th February 2009, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Troides helena cerberus 899x762 (~179Kb) ups male Thailand, Phuket, the Khao Phra Theo National Park, a primary forest at the Ton Sai brook headwaters. 19th February 2009, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Troides helena cerberus 822x830 (~191Kb) uns male Thailand, Phuket, the Khao Phra Theo National Park, a primary forest at the Ton Sai brook headwaters. 19th February 2009, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Leptidea morsei major 381x300 (~34Kb) uns A pine forest edge, Akademgorodok [Academy Town], Novosibirsk, West Siberia, Russia. 3rd June 1992, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Leptidea amurensis 800x414 (~68Kb) male female Wet sand of the left bank of the Novyi Onon arm of the Onon River 1 km downstream of the village Nozhnii Tsasuchei, Onon District, Chita Province, Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia, 20th July 1997 (Leptidea amurensis (Menetries, 1859) (a male (fore wings narrower) and female (fore wings broader) of a summer brood: wings closed) and Pyrgus speyeri (Staudinger, 1887) ssp. (a male; wings open)), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Leptidea amurensis 800x600 (~62Kb) uns Wet sand of the left bank of the Novyi Onon arm of the Onon River 1 km downstream of the village Nozhnii Tsasuchei, Onon District, Chita Province, Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia, 20th July 1997, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Aporia crataegi 405x658 (~25Kb) larva The Bugotak River valley between the villages Samarskii and Karpysak, Toguchin District, Novosibirsk Province, West Siberia, Russia. 13th May 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Aporia crataegi 464x480 (~55Kb) ups A bushy meadow on the second right bank terrace of the Koen River at the mouth of the Volchikha Rivulet, just downstream of the village Nizhnii Koen, Iskitim DIstrict, Novosibirsk Province, West Siberia, Russia. 23rd June 1990 (on Lychnis chalcedonicus), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Aporia crataegi 565x328 (~34Kb) larva Bird cherries on the banks of the Shadrikha Rivulet, Novosibirsk District and Province, West Siberia, Russia. May 1992, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Aporia crataegi 540x834 (~139Kb) The black-veined white (Aporia crataegi (Linnaeus, 1758)) is no too abundant in Europe while in the southern West and Central Siberia it appears in mass quantities almost every year, to form giant congregations on the wet ground on sunny days. The Berd' River right bank at the village Legostaevo, Iskitim District, Novosibirsk Region, West Siberia, Russia. 13th of June 1994, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Aporia crataegi 476x650 (~52Kb) The Zyryanka Rivulet valley, the surroundings of Akademgorodok [Academy Town], Novosibirsk, W. Siberia, Russia. 30th June April 1994 (Pseudocopulation - a usual behaviour of mature specimens which imitate mating without a real sexual intercourse), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Aporia crataegi 780x500 (~126Kb) The Ik River right bank 1 km upstream of the village Novososedovo, the Salairskii Kryazh elevation, Iskitim District, Novosibirsk Province, West Siberia, Russia. 31st May 1997, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Aporia crataegi 437x581 (~99Kb) A glade in a mixed coniferous forest, the Stolby nature reservation, Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia. 11th July 1995 (A congregation on a Cirsium heterophyllum (L.) inflorescence), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Aporia crataegi 410x640 (~22Kb) pupa The bird cherry thickets on the right bank floodland of the Koen River at at the mouth of the Volchikha Rivulet, just downstream of the village Nizhnii Koen, Iskitim District, Novosibirsk Province, West Siberia, Russia. 26th May 1997 (Pupae on the branches of Padus avium Miller), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Aporia leucodice 392x400 (~35Kb) ups A meadow in the lower valley of the Kora River about 10 km upstream of the Tekeli City (1300 m above sea level), the North Dzhungarskiy Alatau mountain chain (NE part of Tien Shan), Taldy-Kurgan Province, Kazakhstan. 13th June 1993, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Pieris bryoniae bryonides 488x323 (~43Kb) The middle valley of the Kora River, 18 km NE of the Tekeli City (1600 m above sea level), the North Dzhungarskiy Alatau mountain chain (NE part of Tien Shan), the Taldy-Kurgan Province, Kazakhstan. 14th June, 19934, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Pieris bryoniae sheljuzhkoi 440x446 (~26Kb) ups female A coastal meadow on the Cape Ploskii, the Koni Peninsula, Ola District, S Magadan Province, Russia. 8th July, 1989, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Pieris melete orientis 642x491 (~32Kb) female A dragonfly station, Gurye County, Jeonnam Province, S Korea, 28th July 2002, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Pontia callidice nelsoni 586x546 (~94Kb) uns A montane tundra at about 1000 m above sea level, the mountains of the Koni Peninsula, Ola District, S Magadan Province, Russia. 23rd July, 1989, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Cepora judith siamensis 1097x918 (~130Kb) Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Si Racha environs, the Chan-ta-Then River valley at lower reaches, 12th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Cepora judith siamensis 825x669 (~139Kb) uns Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Si Racha environs, the Chan-ta-Then River valley at lower reaches, 12th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Cepora judith siamensis 887x673 (~123Kb) Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Si Racha environs, the Chan-ta-Then River valley at lower reaches, 12th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Cepora judith siamensis 808x693 (~183Kb) uns Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Si Racha environs, the Chan-ta-Then River valley at lower reaches, 12th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Ixias pyrene verna 1138x911 (~138Kb) uns Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, a small wood at a grassy swamp at the Jomtien beach, between B.O. Guesthouse and Jomtien Metro Condotel, 2nd January, 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Ixias pyrene verna 698x740 (~46Kb) ups Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, a small wood at a grassy swamp at the Jomtien beach, between B.O. Guesthouse and Jomtien Metro Condotel, 2nd January, 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Ixias pyrene verna 964x892 (~123Kb) uns Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya environs, Ko Lan island, ruderal vegeation at a roadside. 15th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Ixias pyrene verna 699x918 (~86Kb) uns Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya environs, Ko Lan island, ruderal vegeation at a roadside. 15th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Ixias pyrene verna 890x1079 (~87Kb) uns male Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Ko Khram Island, Saikawe beach, a side of a road through shrubbery at the coast, 3rd February, 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Delias descombesi 1001x895 (~120Kb) uns female Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, a small wood at a grassy swamp at the Jomtien beach, between B.O. Guesthouse and Jomtien Metro Condotel, 2nd January, 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Delias hyparete indica 1182x1038 (~166Kb) uns male Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, a small wood at a grassy swamp at the Jomtien beach, between B.O. Guesthouse and Jomtien Metro Condotel, 2nd January, 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Delias hyparete indica 908x1204 (~137Kb) uns male Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, a small wood at a grassy swamp at the Jomtien beach, between B.O. Guesthouse and Jomtien Metro Condotel, 2nd January, 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Delias hyparete indica 955x986 (~99Kb) uns female Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, a small wood at a grassy swamp at the Jomtien beach, between B.O. Guesthouse and Jomtien Metro Condotel, 2nd January, 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Delias hyparete indica 1133x983 (~96Kb) uns female Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, a small wood at a grassy swamp at the Jomtien beach, between B.O. Guesthouse and Jomtien Metro Condotel, 2nd January, 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Delias hyparete indica 915x1170 (~160Kb) uns female Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Ko Khram Island, Saikawe beach, a side of a road through shrubbery at the coast, 3rd February, 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Appias olferna 446x577 (~69Kb) Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, a vasting land with open tree stand behind the Jomtien beach, 1st February, 2005, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Appias olferna 585x827 (~66Kb) Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, a grove edge at a vasting land behind the Jomtien beach, 1th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Appias olferna 1123x1239 (~174Kb) male Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Ko Khram Island, Saikawe beach, a side of a road through shrubbery at the coast, 3rd February, 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Appias olferna 851x812 (~75Kb) uns male Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien beach, a wasting land behind Jomtien Holiday Hotel, 2nd January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Appias olferna 1261x1032 (~203Kb) male Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Ko Khram Island, Saikawe beach, a side of a road through shrubbery at the coast, 3rd February, 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Appias olferna 685x541 (~96Kb) Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, a vasting land with open tree stand behind the Jomtien beach, 1st February, 2005, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Appias lyncida eleonora 711x536 (~89Kb) Thailand, Chantaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a river valley in an evergreen forest above the Krating Waterfalls. 30th January 2005, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Appias indra thronion 940x806 (~85Kb) uns male Thailand, Chanthaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a sandy bed of the Krating rivulet among the tropical forest above the waterfalls. 5th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Appias albina darada 1164x1066 (~273Kb) uns male Thailand, Chanthaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a sandy bed of the Krating rivulet among the tropical forest above the waterfalls. 5th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Appias albina darada 1179x1190 (~154Kb) uns female Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Ko Khram Island, Saikawe beach, a side of a road through shrubbery at the coast, 3rd February, 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Appias nero nero 1152x1065 (~462Kb) uns Thailand, Phuket, a rivulet bank at the foot of Kathu Waterfalls, 25th February 2010, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Appias paulina 1115x1086 (~146Kb) male Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya environs, Ko Lan island, ruderal vegeation at a roadside. 15th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Appias paulina 1120x1042 (~144Kb) male Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya environs, Ko Lan island, ruderal vegeation at a roadside. 15th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin