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Images from Oleg Kosterin

Argynnis 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	Argynnis pandora 554x596 (~96Kb) ups Port-Krym, Crimea, Ukraine. 10th June 1990, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Argynnis pandora 1076x956 (~337Kb) uns Iran, Ostan-e Lorestan, Shakhrestan-e Borujerd , the Hayan village environs, Gavimir Chashmah. 25th May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Argynnis pandora 1198x1021 (~516Kb) uns Iran, Ostan-e Lorestan, Khorramabad-e Shakhrestan, the Sezar River right bank 2 km downstream Bisheh Waterfall. 26th May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Argynnis pandora 1442x1330 (~720Kb) uns Iran, Ostan-e Lorestan, Khorramabad-e Shakhrestan, the Sezar River right bank 2 km downstream Bisheh Waterfall. 26th May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Argynnis pandora 1003x977 (~555Kb) uns Iran, Ostan-e Lorestan, Khorramabad-e Shakhrestan, the Sezar River right bank 2 km downstream Bisheh Waterfall. 26th May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Argynnis sagana paulina 533x400 (~47Kb) ups female An open larch (Larix gmelinii (Rupr.) Rupr.)/birch (Betula pendula Roth. and B. davurica Pall.) 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	Argynnis sagana paulina 800x600 (~97Kb) uns female An open larch/birch stand on a southern slope of the Polovinnaya Pad' valley few kilometres of the Argun' River left bank 13 km S of the village Uryupino, Gazimurskozavodskoi District, E Chita Province, E Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 28th July 1997, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Argynnis sagana relicta 800x800 (~146Kb) ups female 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
Argynnis sagana relicta 514x403 (~26Kb) ups male 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	Argynnis sagana relicta 533x400 (~40Kb) uns male 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	Argynnis sagana relicta 533x400 (~57Kb) A southern slope, overgrown with bushes of Spiraea and Caragana arborescens, of the valley of a brook being a left tributary of the Bol'shoi Tesh River 2 km upstream of its junction with the Malyi Tesh, within the famous "lime-tree island" of the forests of a relic species Tilia sibirica Fisch., 10 km east of the village Kuzedeevo, the elevation of Gornaya Shoriya, Novokuznetsk District, Kemerovo Province, West Siberia, Russia. 12th July 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Argynnis sagana relicta 300x400 (~19Kb) 3th June 1995. The caterpillar was collected on a southern slope, overgrown with bushes of Spiraea and Caragana arborescens, of the valley of a brook being a left tributary of the Bol'shoi Tesh River 2 km upstream of its junction with the Malyi Tesh, within the famous "lime-tree island" of the forests of a relic species Tilia sibirica Fisch., 10 km east of the village Kuzedeevo, the elevation of Gornaya Shoriya, Novokuznetsk District, Kemerovo Province, West Siberia, Russia. 12th July 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Argynnis sagana relicta 800x961 (~139Kb) 6th June 1995. The caterpillar was collected on a southern slope, overgrown with bushes of Spiraea and Caragana arborescens, of the valley of a brook being a left tributary of the Bol'shoi Tesh River 2 km upstream of its junction with the Malyi Tesh, within the famous "lime-tree island" of the forests of a relic species Tilia sibirica Fisch., 10 km east of the village Kuzedeevo, the elevation of Gornaya Shoriya, Novokuznetsk District, Kemerovo Province, West Siberia, Russia. 21st May 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Argynnis sagana relicta 400x533 (~38Kb) 6th June 1995. The caterpillar was collected on a southern slope, overgrown with bushes of Spiraea and Caragana arborescens, of the valley of a brook being a left tributary of the Bol'shoi Tesh River 2 km upstream of its junction with the Malyi Tesh, within the famous "lime-tree island" of the forests of a relic species Tilia sibirica Fisch., 10 km east of the village Kuzedeevo, the elevation of Gornaya Shoriya, Novokuznetsk District, Kemerovo Province, West Siberia, Russia. 21st May 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Argynnis sagana relicta 400x533 (~34Kb) 6th June 1995. The caterpillar was collected on a southern slope, overgrown with bushes of Spiraea and Caragana arborescens, of the valley of a brook being a left tributary of the Bol'shoi Tesh River 2 km upstream of its junction with the Malyi Tesh, within the famous "lime-tree island" of the forests of a relic species Tilia sibirica Fisch., 10 km east of the village Kuzedeevo, the elevation of Gornaya Shoriya, Novokuznetsk District, Kemerovo Province, West Siberia, Russia. 21st May 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Argynnis sagana relicta 400x533 (~38Kb) 6th June 1995. The caterpillar was collected on a southern slope, overgrown with bushes of Spiraea and Caragana arborescens, of the valley of a brook being a left tributary of the Bol'shoi Tesh River 2 km upstream of its junction with the Malyi Tesh, within the famous "lime-tree island" of the forests of a relic species Tilia sibirica Fisch., 10 km east of the village Kuzedeevo, the elevation of Gornaya Shoriya, Novokuznetsk District, Kemerovo Province, West Siberia, Russia. 21st May 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Argynnis sagana relicta 400x533 (~36Kb) 6th June 1995. The caterpillar was collected on a southern slope, overgrown with bushes of Spiraea and Caragana arborescens, of the valley of a brook being a left tributary of the Bol'shoi Tesh River 2 km upstream of its junction with the Malyi Tesh, within the famous "lime-tree island" of the forests of a relic species Tilia sibirica Fisch., 10 km east of the village Kuzedeevo, the elevation of Gornaya Shoriya, Novokuznetsk District, Kemerovo Province, West Siberia, Russia. 21st May 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Argynnis sagana relicta 800x600 (~108Kb) 6th June 1995. The caterpillar was collected on a southern slope, overgrown with bushes of Spiraea and Caragana arborescens, of the valley of a brook being a left tributary of the Bol'shoi Tesh River 2 km upstream of its junction with the Malyi Tesh, within the famous "lime-tree island" of the forests of a relic species Tilia sibirica Fisch., 10 km east of the village Kuzedeevo, the elevation of Gornaya Shoriya, Novokuznetsk District, Kemerovo Province, West Siberia, Russia. 12th July 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Argynnis sagana relicta 900x600 (~136Kb) ups male A road in a pine forest, the Stolby Nature Reserve, Krasnoyarsk Province, 11th July 1995 (on Rubus idaeus), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Fabriciana niobe 800x720 (~147Kb) ups female A birch grove at village Fadino, 10 km S of Omsk, 16th August 1998, 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 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 adippe zarewna 500x500 (~58Kb) larva The pine forest called Tsasucheiskii Bor at the village Nizhnii Tsasuchei, Onon District, Chita Province, SE Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 26th June 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Fabriciana adippe zarewna 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	Fabriciana adippe zarewna 600x600 (~73Kb) pupa Reared from a larva found in the Tsasucheiski Bor pine forest at village Nizhnii Tsasuchei, SE Transbaikalia. 17th June 1995, photographed on 23rd June, 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 ino paidicus 1363x1066 (~321Kb) uns male A long-fallow land on the Akkem River right bank terrace at the Oroktoi Brook mouth, Katunskii Range southern foot, Central [Russian] Altai Mts., Ust'-Koksa District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 8th July 2007, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Brenthis ino adalberti 600x600 (~76Kb) uns male female A larch forest-steppe on the Kopyevskii Kupol hilly massif 12 km NNE of v. Kopyevo, 55o04' N 89o57' E, alt. 500-700 m, Kopyevo District, Khakass Republic, Siberia, Russia. 2nd July 2000, 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 warreni 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
Brenthis daphne 700x700 (~109Kb) ups male Russia, Siberia, Tyva Republic, city Kyzyl, city park: Kaa-Khem River left bank floodland, 51°43' N 94°27' E, alt. 650 m, open riparian poplar forest. 9th July 2000, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Brenthis daphne 600x600 (~94Kb) uns male Russia, Siberia, Tyva Republic, city Kyzyl, city park: Kaa-Khem River left bank floodland, 51°43' N 94°27' E, alt. 650 m, open riparian poplar forest. 9th July 2000, 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	Issoria lathonia 998x905 (~236Kb) ups Russia, North Caucasus, Adygea Republic, Maikop, Khanskaya stanitsa, Khanskie ponds. 14th July 2008, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Issoria lathonia 1049x864 (~174Kb) Russia, North Caucasus, Adygea Republic, Maikop, Khanskaya stanitsa, Khanskie ponds. 14th July 2008, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Issoria 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	Issoria 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	Issoria 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
Issoria 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	Issoria eugenia montana 744x452 (~51Kb) uns male An alpine meadow/dwarf birch thickets in the valley 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 (on Senecio turczaninovii), 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 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 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 790x560 (~86Kb) ups male a subalpine parkland of Pinus sibirica Du Tour on the Seminskii Pass through the Seminskii Mt. Range, at 1800 m above sea level. Ongudai District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 9th July 1999 (on Betula nana rotundifolia), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Boloria napaea altaica 498x578 (~68Kb) uns male a subalpine parkland of Pinus sibirica Du Tour on the Seminskii Pass through the Seminskii Mt. Range, at 1800 m above sea level. Ongudai District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 9th July 1999 (on Aster alpinus), 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 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 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 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