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Images from Oleg Kosterin

Rapala dieneces 909x845 (~138Kb) uns male Thailand, Chanthaburi, Khao-Kitchakut National Park, the park at the headquarters. 4th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Rapala iarbus 695x657 (~136Kb) uns male Thailand, Phang Nga Province, a hill at Khao Khuan Kha, 5 km NE Khok Kloi, a primary forest. 23rd February 2009, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Loxura atymnus fuconius 1056x922 (~229Kb) uns male Thailand, Phang Nga Province, a hill at Khao Khuan Kha, 5 km NE Khok Kloi, a primary forest. 23rd February 2009, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Loxura atymnus fuconius 1292x1289 (~414Kb) uns Thailand, Phuket, a garden in the Nai Yang beach area. 28th February 2009, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Tajuria cippus 1056x981 (~131Kb) uns Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya environs, Ko Lan island, ruderal vegeation at a roadside. 15th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Tajuria cippus 989x1172 (~177Kb) uns Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya environs, Ko Lan island, ruderal vegeation at a roadside. 15th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Tajuria albiplaga pallescens 793x676 (~41Kb) uns Thailand, Chantaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a stony bank of a rivulet among the tropical forest above the Krating falls. 5th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Tajuria albiplaga pallescens 734x746 (~43Kb) uns Thailand, Chantaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a stony bank of a rivulet among the tropical forest above the Krating falls. 5th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Arhopala sp. 788x749 (~203Kb) uns Thailand, Phuket, a forest brook valley near Ban Sakhu, 16th February 2009, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Arhopala pseudocentaurus 1271x1121 (~144Kb) uns Thailand, Chanthaburi, Khao-Kitchakut National Park, the park at the headquarters. 7th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Arhopala pseudocentaurus 1214x1146 (~288Kb) uns Thailand, Phuket, a secondary forest in the valley of a rivulet flowing to the western coast between Ban Naithon and Ban Layan. 26th February 2009, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Arhopala ijanensis 886x665 (~139Kb) uns Thailand, Phuket, Kathu Waterfalls, 25th February 2010, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Arhopala democritus lycaenaria 992x1097 (~297Kb) uns Thailand, Phang Nga Province, a hill at Khao Khuan Kha, 5 km NE Khok Kloi, a primary forest. 23rd February 2009, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Arhopala cleander aphadantas 916x884 (~197Kb) (id uncertain) uns male Thailand, Phuket, a secondary forest in the valley of a rivulet flowing to the western coast between Ban Naithon and Ban Layan. 25th February 2009, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Arhopala athada 1252x1109 (~270Kb) (id uncertain) uns Thailand, Phuket, the Khao Phra Theo National Park, a primary forest in the upper Ton Sai valley. 28th February 2009, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Arhopala athada 1192x1098 (~235Kb) (id uncertain) uns Thailand, Phuket, the Khao Phra Theo National Park, a primary forest in the upper Ton Sai valley. 28th February 2009, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Arhopala bazalus turbata 959x666 (~105Kb) uns "Dragonfly Kingdom", Nakamura, Kochi-ken, Shikoku-chiho, Japan. 9th August 2002, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Drupadia ravindra 731x882 (~147Kb) uns 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
Callophrys titanus 533x400 (~47Kb) uns Steep rocky slopes of a middle Shirkent Gorge between the kishlaks Shirkent and Pashni-Kukhna, the southern principal slope of the Ghissar mountain range, the Pamiro-Alai Mts., Tursun-Zade Province, Tadjikistan. 6th May 1989, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Callophrys suaveola 400x300 (~31Kb) uns male female Altarnating woods and meadows in the low valley of the Kora River just upstream of the Tekeli City, the North Dzhungarskiy Alatau mountain chain (NE part of Tien Shan), the Taldy-Kurgan Province, SE Kazakhstan. 13th June 1993, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Ahlbergia frivaldszkyi 443x400 (~36Kb) uns An edge of an asp/birch/bird cherry wood in the valley of a brook being a right tributary of the Chem River, 5 km NNE of the village Ust'-Chem, Iskitim District, Novosibirsk Province, West Siberia, Russia. 9th May 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Satyrium herzi 369x300 (~33Kb) uns male The Onon River right bank floodland 5 km upstream of the village Nizhnii Tsasuchei, Onon District, SE Chita Province (Dahuria), Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 1st July 1996, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Satyrium pruni 533x400 (~48Kb) uns female An edge of a swampy pine forest at the right branch of the Ob' River, the Novosibirsk environs at the village Nizhnyaya Eltsovka, Novosibirsk Province, West Siberia, Russia. 4th July 1993, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Satyrium pruni 400x583 (~35Kb) uns female The Ora Rivulet valley 2 km nort of the village Motkovo, Moshkovo District, Novosibirsk Province. 28th June 1997 (on an inflorescence of Aegopodium podagraria L.), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Satyrium latior 800x600 (~96Kb) uns male The Onon River left bank, shaded by willow thickets, 7 km upstream of the village Nizhnii Tsasuchei, Onon District, Chita Province, SE Transbaikalia (Dahuria), Siberia, Russia. 11th July 1996, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Satyrium w-album sutchani 800x600 (~70Kb) uns male A tree of Ulmus pumila L. on the Onon River righht bank floodland, 7 km upstream of the village Nizhnii Tsasuchei, Onon District, SE Chita Region, Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia, 4th July 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Satyrium prunoides 533x400 (~54Kb) uns female A rocky ridge crest on the Adon-Chelon elevation, at the mountain Tsagan-Obo, 10 km NNW of the village Tasyrkhoi, S Chita Province (Dahuria), Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 9th July 1996 (on its foodplant Spiraea aquilegifolia Pallas), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Neolycaena davidi 400x476 (~39Kb) uns female A bushy (Caragana microphylla (Pallas) Lam.) herding meadow in the Onon River right bank at the village Verkhnii Tsasuchei, Onon District, SE Chita Province (Dahuria), Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 30th June 1996 (egg-laying female), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Cigaritis syama 793x802 (~178Kb) uns 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	Cigaritis syama 999x1002 (~293Kb) uns 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
Cigaritis syama 1039x978 (~270Kb) uns 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	Lycaena phlaeas 444x518 (~27Kb) A floweer clump, Chihaya-akasaka-mura, Minami-kawachi-gun, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. 3th August 2002, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Lycaena phlaeas oxiana 533x400 (~65Kb) ups male A bank of the Shirkent River in its lower flow several km upstream of the kishlak Shirkent, the southern principal slope of the Ghissar mountain range, the Pamiro-Alai Mts., Tursun-Zade Province, Tadjikistan. 7th May 1989, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Lycaena dispar rutila 533x400 (~47Kb) ups female The Black Sea coast at the settlement Yuzhnyaya Ozereevka near Novorossiysk, Novorossiysk District, Krasnodarskii Krai Province, Russia. 2nd June 1990, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Lycaena dispar festiva 457x400 (~41Kb) uns female The Irtysh River left bank floodland within the Omsk City, West Siberia, Russia. 27th August 1996 (on Inula salicina L.), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Lycaena dispar aurata 533x400 (~36Kb) uns female 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
Lycaena violaceus 533x400 (~42Kb) ups male A rocky southern slope of a piedmont hill of the mountain Gydyrgun on the northern bank of Lake Zun-Torei, Onon District, SE Chita Province (Dahuria), Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 13th July 1996, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Lycaena alciphron 533x400 (~57Kb) ups male A valley meadow at the Shadrikha Rivulet at the village Mel'nichikha, Novosibirsk District and Province, West Siberia, Russia. 17th May 1993, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Lycaena virgaureae virgaureola 400x300 (~32Kb) uns male female A forb meadow on a SE slope 12 km SE of the village Gazimurskii Zavod, Gazimurskozavodskoi District, E Chita Province, E Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 24th July 1997, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Lycaena virgaureae virgaureola 400x451 (~32Kb) uns A meadow, with Medicago dominating, on the Tes-Khem River right bank in front of the Shivilig-Khem valley, the Ubsu-Nur intermontane hollow, Tes-Khem District, Tuva Republic, Siberia, Russia. 9th July 1990, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Lycaena tityrus 443x400 (~30Kb) uns female The floodland on the Om' River right bank in the Omsk City suburbs, West Siberia, Russia. 14th August 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Lycaena hippothoe eurybia 501x395 (~37Kb) uns male female An alpine meadow in the valley of the 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. 22nd July 1998 (on Pedicularis anthemifolia Fisch. ex Colla), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Lycaena hippothoe eurybia 439x400 (~38Kb) uns male A meadow in a depression on the Adon-Chelon elevation, at the mountain Tsagan-Obo, 10 km NNW of the village Tasyrkhoi, S Chita Province (Dahuria), Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 9th July 1996, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Niphanda fusca 400x300 (~30Kb) uns male female A rocky cliff of the Onon River left bank grown up with Ulmus macrocarpa Hance, U. pumila L., and Armeniaca sibirica (L.) Lam., 7 km upstream of the village Nizhnii Tsasuchei, Onon District, SE Chita Province (Dahuria), Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 5th July 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Niphanda fusca 476x400 (~37Kb) uns female The Onon River left bank floodland 7 km upstream of the village Nizhnii Tsasuchei, Onon District, SE Chita Province (Dahuria), Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 1st July 1996 (feeding on Spiraea salicifolia L.), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Nacaduba sp. 765x864 (~53Kb) uns Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, bushes and trees around a small grassy swampat the Jomtien beach, between B.O. Guesthouse and Jomtien Metro Condotel. 2nd January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Nacaduba sp. 547x812 (~61Kb) ups Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, bushes and trees around a small grassy swampat the Jomtien beach, between B.O. Guesthouse and Jomtien Metro Condotel. 2nd January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Nacaduba sp. 1224x1202 (~89Kb) Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, bushes and trees around a small grassy swampat the Jomtien beach, between B.O. Guesthouse and Jomtien Metro Condotel. 26th January 2005, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Nacaduba sp. 885x792 (~59Kb) uns Thailand, Chantaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a sandy bank of a rivulet among the tropical forest above the Krating falls. 5th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Nacaduba sp. 990x810 (~99Kb) Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, bushes and trees around a small grassy swampat the Jomtien beach, between B.O. Guesthouse and Jomtien Metro Condotel. 26th January 2005, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Nacaduba sp. 844x857 (~75Kb) uns Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, bushes and trees around a small grassy swampat the Jomtien beach, between B.O. Guesthouse and Jomtien Metro Condotel. 2nd January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Prosotas sp. 759x732 (~68Kb) uns Thailand, Chantaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a sandy bank of a rivulet among the tropical forest above the Krating falls. 5th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Caleta roxus pothus 792x723 (~188Kb) uns Thailand, Phuket, the Khao Phra Theo National Park, the lower reaches of Bang Pae brook. 19th February 2009, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Discolampa ethion 720x629 (~47Kb) uns Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Ko Khram Island, Saikaew beach, a pond in a wood near the coast, 11th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin