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Images from Oleg Kosterin

Tongeia fischeri 1055x1114 (~399Kb) uns male Russia, West Siberia, the western Altai Mts., Yanbochi valley at the Kyrlyk River headwaters 8 km SE of Kyrlyk village, a mud at a karst spring at a limestone hill foot. 6th July 2005 (and Plebejus idas ongodai), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Tongeia fischeri 1004x813 (~307Kb) uns male Russia, West Siberia, the western Altai Mts., Yanbochi valley at the Kyrlyk River headwaters 8 km SE of Kyrlyk village, a mud at a karst spring at a limestone hill foot. 6th July 2005 (and Plebejus idas ongodai), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Tongeia fischeri caudalis 757x671 (~60Kb) uns male Dragonfly Station, Gurye County, Jeonnam Province, S Korea, 28th July 2002, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Polyommatus damon 852x630 (~74Kb) uns male female Russia, C Siberia, Tyva Republic (Tuva), Todzha Hollow, Lake Azas NW bank at Ilgi-Chul cordone, a long-herb meadow. 24th July 2000, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Polyommatus damon 647x953 (~119Kb) 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. 7th July 2007, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Polyommatus damone altaica 600x600 (~56Kb) female Russia, C Siberia, Khakasia, at Son station, a stony steppen south-exoposed slope, 4th July 2000 (on Silene), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Polyommatus damone altaica 1000x1000 (~139Kb) uns female Russia, C Siberia, Khakasia, at Son station, a stony steppen south-exoposed slope, 4th July 2000 (on Silene), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Polyommatus damone altaica 541x700 (~45Kb) uns female Russia, C Siberia, Khakasia, at Son station, a stony steppen south-exoposed slope, 4th July 2000 (on Silene), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Polyommatus damone altaica 1000x1000 (~125Kb) ups male Russia, C Siberia, Khakasia, at Son station, a stony steppen south-exoposed slope, 4th July 2000 (on Leontopodium ochroleucum), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Polyommatus damone altaica 1000x1000 (~177Kb) uns male Russia, C Siberia, Khakasia, at Son station, a stony steppen south-exoposed slope, 4th July 2000 (on Hedysarium gmelinii), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Polyommatus damone altaica 661x1000 (~91Kb) uns male Russia, C Siberia, Khakasia, at Son station, a stony steppen south-exoposed slope, 4th July 2000 (on Phlomis tuberosa), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Polyommatus daphnis 300x400 (~29Kb) uns 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
Polyommatus eros erotides 533x400 (~38Kb) uns male 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	Polyommatus eros kamtshadalis 533x400 (~52Kb) uns male Subalpine meadows alternating with the dwarf alder (Dushekia fruticosa (Rupr.) Pouzar) thickets on the western slope of the volcano Zheltovskaya Sopka, Elizovo District, S Kamchatka, Russia. 16th August 1991, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Polyommatus amandus 616x692 (~86Kb) uns female Akademgorodok [Academy Town], Novosibirsk, West Siberia, Russia. 5th July 1998 (on Vicia tenuifolia No 5647), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Polyommatus amandus 411x500 (~46Kb) uns male A forb meadow with birch groves on the interfluve between the Shadrikha and Zyryanka Rivulets at the village Lozhok at Akademgorodok [Novosibirsk Academy Town], Novosibirsk District and Province, West Siberia, Russia. 29th June 1998 (on Phleum phleoides), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Polyommatus amandus 737x1115 (~148Kb) uns male Russia, West Siberia, NW Altai Mts., Ust'-Kan District, Bashchelakskii Range, meadow steppe 1 km SSW of Keley village. 3th July 2005 (on Onobrychis arenaria), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Polyommatus amandus 1324x1199 (~325Kb) uns male Russia, West Siberia, NW Altai Mts., Ust'-Kan District, Bashchelakskii Range, meadow steppe 1 km SSW of Keley village. 3th July 2005, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Polyommatus amandus gina 909x1183 (~260Kb) uns male Iran, Ostan-e Markazi, Shakhrestan-e Shazand, Astaneh Town env., Seidan chashmah, 2289 m a.s.l., 20th May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Polyommatus amandus gina 1181x1444 (~361Kb) uns male Iran, Ostan-e Markazi, Shakhrestan-e Shazand, Astaneh Town env., Seidan chashmah, 2289 m a.s.l., 20th May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Polyommatus icadius cicero 400x600 (~46Kb) uns female A detrituous southern slope of the Dzhazator River right bank 4 km upstream of the Zhumaly River mouth, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 20th July 1998., Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Polyommatus icadius cicero 546x393 (~35Kb) uns female A detrituous southern slope of the Dzhazator River right bank 4 km upstream of the Zhumaly River mouth, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 20th July 1998., Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Polyommatus icadius cicero 420x398 (~32Kb) uns female A detrituous southern slope of the Dzhazator River right bank 4 km upstream of the Zhumaly River mouth, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 20th July 1998., Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Polyommatus icarus 547x621 (~107Kb) uns female Iran, Ostan-e Markazi, Lake Kavir-e Meighan NE bank, salty desert, 18th May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Polyommatus icarus 814x922 (~151Kb) uns male Russian Federation, Krasnodarskii Krai, Adler, bank of Nizhneimeretinskaya harbour, 15 July 2008, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Polyommatus icarus fuchsi 800x600 (~100Kb) uns male female A meadow at the settlement Novyi Poselok at the town Berdsk, Novosibirsk District and Province, West Siberia, Russia. 4th August 1996, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Polyommatus icarus fuchsi 588x568 (~65Kb) uns male A meadow at the Zyryanka Riculet mouth, Akademgorodok {Novosibirsk Academy Town], Novosibirsk, West Siberia, Russia. 20th June 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Lysandra melamarina 533x400 (~48Kb) uns male female The foot of the coastal (the Nlack Sea) lime-stone hills at the settlement Kabardinka, Gelendzhik District, Krasnodarskii Krai Province, Russia. 10th June 1990, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Lysandra melamarina 958x731 (~178Kb) male Russia, North Caucasus, Adygea Republic, Maikop, Khanskaya stanitsa, a meadow on the Belaya River right bank. 11th July 2008, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Lysandra melamarina 781x938 (~213Kb) uns male Russia, North Caucasus, Adygea Republic, Maikop, Khanskaya stanitsa, a meadow on the Belaya River right bank. 11th July 2008, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Cyaniris semiargus altaiana 400x533 (~50Kb) uns male female A herb meadow, the village Cherga, Shebalino District, Altai Republic, the Altai Mts., West Siberia, Russia. 28th June 1989, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Cyaniris semiargus altaiana 918x792 (~138Kb) ups male Russia, West Siberia, NW Altai Mts., Ust'-Kan District, Bashchelakskii Range, meadow steppe 1 km SSW of Keley village. 3th July 2005 (on Onobrychis arenaria), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Cyaniris semiargus altaiana 646x851 (~127Kb) ups uns male Russia, West Siberia, NW Altai Mts., Ust'-Kan District, Bashchelakskii Range, meadow steppe 1 km SSW of Keley village. 3th July 2005 (on Onobrychis arenaria), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Glabroculus cyane 506x400 (~34Kb) uns female A saline steppe between the elevation Zolotaya Griva and Lake Teniz, 13 km SW of the village Novokrasnoe, Chistozernyi District, Novosibirsk Province (on the Kazakhstan border), Russia. 22nd June 1994 (on Goniolimon speciosum (L.) Boiss.), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Glabroculus cyane 533x400 (~39Kb) male A steppefied meadow on the Onon River right bank terrace at a pine forest edge, 5 km upstream of the village Nizhnii Tsasuchei, Onon District, Chita Province, Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia, 2nd July 1996, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Glabroculus cyane 801x530 (~56Kb) ups uns male female A saline steppe between the elevation Zolotaya Griva and Lake Teniz, 13 km SW of the village Novokrasnoe, Chistozernyi District, Novosibirsk Province (on the Kazakhstan border), Russia. 22nd June 1994 (on Goniolimon speciosum), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Agriades diodorus 533x400 (~34Kb) ups female A meadow steppe, at granite rocks crowning a ridge, where the larval foodplant Saxifraga spinulosa Adam grows, on a moderate elevation Adon-Chelon at the moountain Tsagan-Obo, 10 km NNW of the village Tasyrkhoi, SE Chita Province (Dahuria), Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia, 21st June 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Agriades diodorus 379x300 (~21Kb) uns female A meadow steppe, at granite rocks crowning a ridge, where the larval foodplant Saxifraga spinulosa Adam grows, on a moderate elevation Adon-Chelon at the moountain Tsagan-Obo, 10 km NNW of the village Tasyrkhoi, SE Chita Province (Dahuria), Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia, 21st June 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Agriades pheretiades 600x800 (~75Kb) uns male 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
Agriades pheretiades 458x450 (~50Kb) uns male 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	Agriades orbitulus pheretimus 528x744 (~75Kb) uns male An open pine forest on the hill just north of the Chita Sity, Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 28th June 1996, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Agriades orbitulus sajana 533x400 (~46Kb) uns male A montane tundra in a cirque in the sources of the Argem (Direntai) River, 2500 m above sea level, the eastern spurs of the Katunskiy mountain range, Kosh-Agach District, Central Altai Mts., West Siberia, Russia. 19th July, 1988, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Agriades orbitulus sajana 1350x1212 (~255Kb) ups male 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. 3rd July 2007, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Agriades orbitulus sajana 918x1224 (~222Kb) uns male 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. 3rd July 2007, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Agriades orbitulus sajana 581x717 (~120Kb) uns male 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. 3rd July 2007, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Agriades orbitulus sajana 527x698 (~106Kb) uns male 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. 3rd July 2007, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Agriades optilete 669x953 (~242Kb) uns male The Aldan River right bank 1 km W of Tommot town, Aldan Ulus, Sakha Republic - Yakutia, E Siberia, Russia. 25th June 2002, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Agriades optilete sibirica 400x300 (~16Kb) uns female A mossy larch (Larix gmelinii (Rupr.) Rupr.) taiga at the village Akotuy, the junction of the mountain ranges Uryumkanskii and Kukul'bei, Aleksandrovskozavodskoi District, E Chita Province, E Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 23rd July 1997, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Agriades optilete sibirica 611x616 (~96Kb) uns A very slight tundrous ridge surrounded with peat-moss marches few km of the western coast of the southernmost Kamchatka at the abandoned settlement Bol'sheretsk. 6th August 1992, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Afarsia morgiana 1065x1053 (~310Kb) uns female Iran, Ostan-e Lorestan, Shakhrestan-e Khorramabad, a pass at Zaghe, 31st May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Afarsia morgiana 1515x1577 (~471Kb) uns female Iran, Ostan-e Lorestan, Shakhrestan-e Khorramabad, a pass at Zaghe, 31st May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Afarsia morgiana 1272x1230 (~455Kb) uns female Iran, Ostan-e Lorestan, Shakhrestan-e Khorramabad, a pass at Zaghe, 31st May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Afarsia morgiana 1781x1563 (~542Kb) uns female Iran, Ostan-e Lorestan, Shakhrestan-e Khorramabad, a pass at Zaghe, 31st May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Afarsia morgiana 1353x1190 (~354Kb) uns female Iran, Ostan-e Lorestan, Shakhrestan-e Khorramabad, a pass at Zaghe, 31st May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin