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Images from Oleg Kosterin

Maniola jurtina 839x1137 (~269Kb) uns female Iran, Ostan-e Lorestan, Shakhrestan-e Khorramabad, Bishekh. 25th May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Maniola jurtina 1444x1378 (~457Kb) uns female Iran, Ostan-e Lorestan, Shakhrestan-e Khorramabad, Bishekh. 25th May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Melanargia galathea donsa 474x400 (~40Kb) ups A juniper/oak parkland on the coastal (Black Sea) slopes above the settlement Mukhovatka, Crimea, Ukraine. 3rd July 1991, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Melanargia larissa hylata 1523x1463 (~491Kb) uns Iran, Ostan-e Esfahan, Shakhrestan-e Golpayegan, the Ghomrood River left bank just upstream of the lower reserve, 21st May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Melanargia larissa hylata 1313x1178 (~397Kb) uns Iran, Ostan-e Markazi, Shakhrestan-e Tafresh , Tafresh City environs, Shilanevar valley, 2036 m a.s.l., the lower pond, 29th May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Melanargia larissa hylata 1457x1487 (~360Kb) uns Iran, Lorestan, Khorramabad Shakhrestan, 6.2 km NE of Chenar Gerit village, ~2000 m a.s.l., Persian Oak open woodland in a mountain valley. 31th May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Melanargia larissa hylata 1282x972 (~232Kb) Iran, Lorestan, Khorramabad Shakhrestan, 6.2 km NE of Chenar Gerit village, ~2000 m a.s.l., Persian Oak open woodland in a mountain valley. 31th May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Melanargia larissa hylata 938x1529 (~332Kb) Iran, Lorestan, Khorramabad Shakhrestan, 6.2 km NE of Chenar Gerit village, ~2000 m a.s.l., Persian Oak open woodland in a mountain valley. 31th May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Melanargia larissa hylata 948x1470 (~269Kb) Iran, Lorestan, Khorramabad Shakhrestan, 6.2 km NE of Chenar Gerit village, ~2000 m a.s.l., Persian Oak open woodland in a mountain valley. 31th May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Melanargia russiae 800x600 (~97Kb) uns male female A meadow steppe on the Shipunikha Rivulet right bank terrace 2 km NE of the village Evsino, Iskitim District, Novosibirsk Province, West Siberia, Russia. 21st June 1997, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Melanargia russiae 600x600 (~85Kb) ups female Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarskii Krai Province, Sharypovo District, 5 km NNE of v. Parnaya, 55°19'N 89°16'E, alt. 500-600 m, meadowy steppe on southern slope, birch/larch forest edges. 1/VII 2000, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Melanargia russiae 700x471 (~103Kb) ups male Russia, West Siberia, Novosibirsk Province (just and its S border), Ordynskii Dirstrict, environs of the village Antonovo, the southern steppen bluff of the Novosibirsk Water Reserve bank. 23th June 2001, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Melanargia halimede 600x800 (~90Kb) uns female A steppefied meadow on a southern slope in the valley of a brook being a tributary of the Serebryanka River, the southern environs of the village Nerchinskii Zavod, Nerchinskozavodskoi District, E Chita Province, E Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 6th August 1997 (on Adenophora tricuspidata (Fischer ex Roemer & Schultes) A. DC), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Boeberia parmenio 800x600 (~123Kb) ups female A clearing in a pine forest at the village Nizhnii Tsasuchei, Onon District, Chita Province, SE Transbaikalia (Dahuria), Siberia, Russia. 3rd July 1996, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Boeberia parmenio 800x600 (~116Kb) uns female A clearing in a pine forest at the village Nizhnii Tsasuchei, Onon District, Chita Province, SE Transbaikalia (Dahuria), Siberia, Russia. 3rd July 1996, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Brintesia circe 387x400 (~37Kb) uns An edge of a pine forest on the clope of the coastal Crimean mountains above the settlement Nikita, Crimea, Ukraine. 2nd July 1991, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Brintesia circe 533x400 (~55Kb) uns An open pistachio-tree / oak / juniper stand (phrygana) on the western slope of the Svyataya mountain, Kara-Dag Nature Reserve, Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine. 8th July 1991 (Two feeding on Psephelus sp.), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Chazara briseis 681x525 (~72Kb) uns male A patch of a meadow steppe at the village Fadino, 10 km S of the city Omsk, West Siberia, Russia. 16th August 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Chazara briseis 800x558 (~71Kb) uns male A patch of a meadow steppe at the village Fadino, 10 km S of the city Omsk, West Siberia, Russia. 16th August 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Chazara briseis magna 533x400 (~69Kb) uns male female A ditch in a steppe on the Dzhunke Plateau, the Northern Dzhungarian Alatau mountain chain, 1600 m altitude, 10 km SE of the village Kopal, Kopal District, Taldy-Kurgan Province, SE Kazakhstan. 4th August 1994, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Chazara briseis lyrnessus 1198x939 (~383Kb) uns female Russia, West Siberia, Altaiskii Krai Province, Zmeinogorsk District, Savvushka village environs, the Lake Kolyvenskoe bank, a slope steppe. 9th September 2007, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Chazara heydenreichi 823x520 (~119Kb) uns The Tyshkan River valley just upstream its leaving the mountains, about 1800 m above sea level, 37 km N of Zharkent, 10 km N of village Sarybel', mountain massif Tyshkantau, the Southern Dzhungarian Alatau mountain chain (NE part of Tien Shan), Zharkent District, Taldy-Kurgan Province, SE Kazakhstan. 23rd July 1994, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Chazara persephone 533x400 (~47Kb) uns female Omsk, West Siberia, Russia. July 1979, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Hipparchia autonoe 668x703 (~109Kb) uns female 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 (on Veronica porphyriana), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Hipparchia autonoe 595x396 (~42Kb) uns male female A steppefied southern slope of small mountains on the Dzhazator River right bank in front of the Akbul Rivulet mouth, between the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range and the Ukok Plateau, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 12th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Hipparchia autonoe sibirica 565x423 (~42Kb) uns male 5 km W of the village Nizhnii Tsasuchei, Onon District, Chita Province, Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 15th July 1997 (A male sitting on sand under a sparce canopy of open Ulmus pumila wood (this tree may grow in arid habitats) on the Onon River right bank), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Hipparchia autonoe sibirica 628x460 (~91Kb) uns A stony dry delta (loc. "sair") of the Shivilig-Khem River descending from the mountains the East Tannu-Ola mounatin range for the Ubsu-Nur Hollow, Tes-Khem District, Tuva Republic, Siberia, Russia. 15th July 1990, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Hipparchia pellucida 626x407 (~68Kb) uns female A road through alternating meadows and woods on a flat top (loc. "yaila") of the coastal Crimean mountains above the halfway between Mukhovatka and Foros, Crimea, Ukraine. 4th July 1991, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Hipparchia fidia 631x905 (~95Kb) uns France, Provence, Marceille, above cliffs between Marceille and Cassis. 26th July 2002, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Karanasa regeli ruckbeili 590x476 (~89Kb) ups The Sargir River valley, the Usek River basin, the massif Tyshkantau of the Southern Dzhungarian Alatau, Taldy-Kurgan Region, E Kazakhstan. 29th of July 1994, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Karanasa regeli ruckbeili 652x460 (~79Kb) uns The Sargir River valley, the Usek River basin, the massif Tyshkantau of the Southern Dzhungarian Alatau, Taldy-Kurgan Region, E Kazakhstan. 29th of July 1994, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Minois dryas 918x902 (~270Kb) male female Russia, West Siberia, Omsk, a floodland meadow within the 30th Anniversary of Victory Park. 15th July 2007, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Minois dryas septentrionalis 800x600 (~83Kb) ups uns male female An open pine forest at the village Verkhnii Tsasuchei, Onon District, S Chita Province, SE Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 10th August 1997, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Minois dryas bipunctatus 797x725 (~89Kb) The Soockchon River valley, Ogchon County, Chung-Cheung Province, S Korea, 28th July 2002, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Minois dryas bipunctatus 603x701 (~93Kb) uns The Soockchon River valley, Ogchon County, Chung-Cheung Province, S Korea, 28th July 2002, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Oeneis magna dubia 531x500 (~60Kb) uns male A subalpine larch parkland on the southern principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range between the Chikty and Akbul Rivulets, 2300 m above sea level, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 11th July 1998 (on Geranium krylovii Tzvelev, 1993), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Oeneis magna dubia 616x700 (~138Kb) uns A subalpine larch parkland on the southern principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range between the Chikty and Akbul Rivulets, 2300 m above sea level, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 11th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Oeneis magna dubia 1093x861 (~372Kb) uns A dry open Pinus sibirica Du Tour stand on a rocky granite ridge between the Akkem and Aryskan Rivers 2300 m above sea level, the Akkem River basin, the Katunskii Range northern principal slope, Central [Russian] Altai Mts., Ust'-Koksa District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 4th July 2007, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Oeneis magna dubia 918x1224 (~703Kb) uns A dry open Pinus sibirica Du Tour stand on a rocky granite ridge between the Akkem and Aryskan Rivers 2300 m above sea level, the Akkem River basin, the Katunskii Range northern principal slope, Central [Russian] Altai Mts., Ust'-Koksa District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 4th July 2007, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Oeneis magna dubia 1224x918 (~783Kb) uns A dry open Pinus sibirica Du Tour stand on a rocky granite ridge between the Akkem and Aryskan Rivers 2300 m above sea level, the Akkem River basin, the Katunskii Range northern principal slope, Central [Russian] Altai Mts., Ust'-Koksa District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 4th July 2007, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Oeneis magna dubia 1167x918 (~531Kb) uns A dry open Pinus sibirica Du Tour stand on a rocky granite ridge between the Akkem and Aryskan Rivers 2300 m above sea level, the Akkem River basin, the Katunskii Range northern principal slope, Central [Russian] Altai Mts., Ust'-Koksa District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 4th July 2007, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Oeneis norna 891x560 (~121Kb) uns Stony bank of the Chikty Rivulet among alpine meadow/dwarf birch thickets, 2500 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
Oeneis norna altaica 566x551 (~59Kb) uns male An alpine meadow in the valley of the left headwater 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. 9th July 1998 (on of Angelica archangelica), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Oeneis norna altaica 617x574 (~80Kb) uns male An alpine meadow in the valley of the left headwater 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. 9th July 1998 (on Lagotis integrifolia), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Oeneis norna altaica 823x596 (~121Kb) uns male An alpine meadow in the valley of the left headwater 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. 11th July 1998 (on horse dung), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Oeneis norna altaica 516x392 (~40Kb) uns male An alpine meadow in the valley of the left headwater 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. 11th July 1998 (on horse dung), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Oeneis norna altaica 887x1070 (~500Kb) uns An alpine meadow patch neighbouring with the most elevated larch wood outposts in the Kamdyt valley, a Tekelyu River right tributary which in turn is an Akkem River right tributary, the Katunskii Range northern principal slope, Central [Russian] Altai Mts., Ust'-Koksa District, Altai Rapublic, West Siberia, Russia. 4rd July 2007, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Oeneis ammon 777x747 (~133Kb) uns female An alpine meadow in the valley of a headwater of the Chikty Rivulet, 2500 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. 15th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Oeneis ammon 738x636 (~133Kb) uns male An alpine meadow in the valley of a headwater of the Chikty Rivulet, 2500 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. 15th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Oeneis sculda 730x725 (~141Kb) uns female An alpine meadow in the valley of the left headwater 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, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Oeneis sculda 1052x979 (~356Kb) uns female An alpine meadow patch neighbouring with the most elevated larch wood outposts in the Kamdyt valley, a Tekelyu River right tributary which in turn is an Akkem River right tributary, the Katunskii Range northern principal slope, Central [Russian] Altai Mts., Ust'-Koksa District, Altai Rapublic, West Siberia, Russia. 3th July 2007, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Oeneis nanna 880x722 (~181Kb) uns female A meadowy SW slope of a ridge between the headwaters of the Chikty Rivulet, 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. 10th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Oeneis nanna 600x912 (~175Kb) uns male A dry rocky southern slope of a ridge between the headwaters of the Chikty Rivulet, 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. 10th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Oeneis nanna 412x566 (~85Kb) uns male A dry rocky southern slope of a ridge between the headwaters of the Chikty Rivulet, 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. 10th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin