Images from Oleg Kosterin

Cupido minimus
[minimus-3mfv.jpg] 589x597 (~79Kb) uns male female A meadow at a small asp grove at a granite crest of a ridge of a moderate elevation Adon-Chelon, at the mountain Tsagan-Obo, 10 km NNW of the village Tasyrkhoi, SE Chita Province (Dahuria), Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia, 21st June 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Cupido minimus
[minimus-4af.jpg] 855x897 (~205Kb) female Russian Federation, Adygea Republic, Caucasian nature reserve, Lagonaki Plateau, the Blyam Mt. environs, alpine meadows, 12 July 2008, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Cupido minimus
[minimus-4afu.jpg] 753x1001 (~211Kb) ups female Russian Federation, Adygea Republic, Caucasian nature reserve, Lagonaki Plateau, the Blyam Mt. environs, alpine meadows, 12 July 2008, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Cupido minimus
[minimus-4bfu.jpg] 754x773 (~153Kb) ups female Russian Federation, Adygea Republic, Caucasian nature reserve, Lagonaki Plateau, the Blyam Mt. environs, alpine meadows, 12 July 2008, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Cupido argiades
[argiades-2mfv.jpg] 533x400 (~36Kb) uns male female A meadow at the granite rocky crest of a ridge on 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
Cupido argiades
[argiades-6mf.jpg] 731x903 (~143Kb) male female A meadow on the Sema River left bank 1 km downstream of Kamlak village, Shebalino District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 8th July 2005, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Cupido argiades
[argiades-7fv.jpg] 679x800 (~156Kb) uns female Russia, Khabarovskiy Kray, Khabarovsk southern env., Bychikha village. 7th July 2014, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Cupido alcetas
[alcetas-2mv.jpg] 533x400 (~36Kb) uns male An open old aspen in the Opalikha Rivulet valley, a left tributary of the Koen River, Iskitim District, Novosibirsk Province, West Siberia, Russia. 13th June 1992, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Cupido lacturnus
[lacturnus_lacturnus-1bmv.jpg] 1175x1028 (~383Kb) uns male Cambodia, Preah Sihanouk Province, Ream Peninsula, a grassy swamp at Coconut Beach, 11th November 2018, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Cupido lacturnus
[lacturnus_lacturnus-1amv.jpg] 1104x1142 (~371Kb) uns male Cambodia, Preah Sihanouk Province, Ream Peninsula, a grassy swamp at Coconut Beach, 11th November 2018, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Tongeia fischeri
[fischeri-1mfv.jpg] 800x600 (~94Kb) uns male female The steppen rocky southern slope of the hill Sopka Mokhnataya of the hill chain called Bugotakskie Sopki, Toguchin District, Novosibirsk Province, Russia. 12th June 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Tongeia fischeri
[fischeri-2.jpg] 468x394 (~46Kb) The valley of the Shivilig-Khem River just upstream its leaving the the southern foot of the East Tannu-Ola mounatin range for the Ubsu-Nur Hollow, Tes-Khem District, Tuva Republic, Siberia, Russia. 11th July 1990, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Tongeia fischeri
[fischeri-3mav.jpg] 884x977 (~183Kb) 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, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Tongeia fischeri
[fischeri-3mbv.jpg] 1134x1080 (~377Kb) 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, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Tongeia fischeri
[fischeri-3mxv.jpg] 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
[fischeri-3myv.jpg] 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
[caudalis-1mv.jpg] 757x671 (~60Kb) uns male Dragonfly Station, Gurye County, Jeonnam Province, S Korea, 28th July 2002, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Polyommatus damon
[damon-2mfv.jpg] 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
[damon-3mv.jpg] 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
[altaicus-1xf.jpg] 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
[altaicus-1yfv.jpg] 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
[altaicus-1zfv.jpg] 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
[altaicus-2xmu.jpg] 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
[altaicus-2ymv.jpg] 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
[altaicus-2zmv.jpg] 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
[daphnis-1v.jpg] 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
[erotides-1mv.jpg] 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
[kamtschadalus-1mv.jpg] 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
[amandus-3fv.jpg] 616x692 (~86Kb) uns female Akademgorodok [Academy Town], Novosibirsk, West Siberia, Russia. 5th July 1998 (on Vicia tenuifolia No 5647), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Polyommatus amandus
[amandus-3mv.jpg] 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
[amandus_amandus-1amv.jpg] 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
[amandus_amandus-1bmv.jpg] 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
[gina-1mav.jpg] 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
[gina-1mbv.jpg] 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
[cicero-1fv.jpg] 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
[cicero-1fvx.jpg] 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
[cicero-1fvy.jpg] 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
[icarus-a8fv.jpg] 547x621 (~107Kb) uns female Iran, Ostan-e Markazi, Lake Kavir-e Meighan NE bank, salty desert, 18th May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Polyommatus icarus
[icarus_icarus-1mv.jpg] 814x922 (~151Kb) uns male Russian Federation, Krasnodarskii Krai, Adler, bank of Nizhneimeretinskaya harbour, 15 July 2008, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Polyommatus icarus fuchsi
[fuchsi-1mfv.jpg] 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
[fuchsi-2mv.jpg] 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
[melamarina-2mfv.jpg] 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
[melamarina-3m.jpg] 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
[melamarina-3mv.jpg] 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
[altaiana-1mfv.jpg] 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
[altaiana-2mu.jpg] 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
[altaiana-2muv.jpg] 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
[cyane-1fv.jpg] 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
[cyane-2m.jpg] 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
[cyane-3mufv.jpg] 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
[diodorus-1fu.jpg] 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
[diodorus-1fv.jpg] 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
[pheretiades-1mv.jpg] 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
[pheretiades-2mv.jpg] 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


[Oleg Kosterin]
Institue of Cytology & Genetics
Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk; e-mail: Oleg Kosterin; http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/kosterin/
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