Images from Oleg Kosterin

Erebia brimo elwesi
[elwesi-1mu.jpg] 907x610 (~108Kb) ups 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. 15th July 1998 (on Juniperus pseudosabina), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia brimo elwesi
[elwesi-1mv.jpg] 400x300 (~32Kb) uns male A southern steppefied slope of the mountain on the Chuya River right bank between the villages Kurai and Chagan-Uzun, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Mts., West Siberia, Russia. 7th July 1988, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia stubbendorfii
[stubbendorfi-1am.jpg] 1084x918 (~337Kb) 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. 3th July 2007 (on Alchemilla), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia stubbendorfii
[stubbendorfi-1bm.jpg] 1220x1099 (~395Kb) 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. 3th July 2007 (on Alchemilla), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia stubbendorfii
[stubbendorfi-1xmu.jpg] 1324x1219 (~319Kb) 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. 3th July 2007 (on Alchemilla), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia stubbendorfii
[stubbendorfi-1ymu.jpg] 1168x900 (~289Kb) 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. 3th July 2007 (on Alchemilla), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia aethiops
[aethiops-2fv.jpg] 510x400 (~35Kb) uns female A fir/lime forest on a ridge in the Malyi Tesh and Bolshoi Tesh Rivers interfluve 8 km E of the village Kuzedeevo, the famous "lime-tree island" of the forest of a relic species Tilia sibirica Fisch., piedmonts of the Gornaya Shoria Mts., Novokuznetsk District, Kemerovo Province, West Siberia, Russia. 28th July 1996, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia neriene
[neriene-1fu.jpg] 533x400 (~44Kb) ups female A mossy larch forest in 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
Erebia neriene
[neriene-1mv.jpg] 300x400 (~26Kb) uns male A steppefied southern left slope 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. 26th July 1997, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia medusa
[medusa-3au.jpg] 1064x854 (~338Kb) ups Russian Federation, Adygea Republic, Caucasian nature reserve, Lagonaki Plateau, the Blyam Mt. environs, alpine meadows, 12 July 2008, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia medusa
[medusa-3bu.jpg] 1010x752 (~220Kb) ups Russian Federation, Adygea Republic, Caucasian nature reserve, Lagonaki Plateau, the Blyam Mt. environs, alpine meadows, 12 July 2008, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia medusa
[medusa-3xv.jpg] 887x841 (~222Kb) uns Russian Federation, Adygea Republic, Caucasian nature reserve, Lagonaki Plateau, the Blyam Mt. environs, alpine meadows, 12 July 2008, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia medusa
[medusa-3ymf.jpg] 1110x1088 (~381Kb) male female Russian Federation, Adygea Republic, Caucasian nature reserve, Lagonaki Plateau, the Blyam Mt. environs, alpine meadows, 12 July 2008, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia medusa
[medusa-3ymfv.jpg] 1085x710 (~235Kb) uns male female Russian Federation, Adygea Republic, Caucasian nature reserve, Lagonaki Plateau, the Blyam Mt. environs, alpine meadows, 12 July 2008, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia medusa
[medusa-3zv.jpg] 1022x885 (~301Kb) uns Russian Federation, Adygea Republic, Caucasian nature reserve, Lagonaki Plateau, the Blyam Mt. environs, alpine meadows, 12 July 2008, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia turanica
[turanica-1v.jpg] 533x400 (~43Kb) uns A long-forb meadow within a Tien Shan spruce (Picea schrenkiana Fisch. & Mey.) open forest at 2500 m above sea level at the junction of the Tyshkan and Tyshkanbas Rivers, 40 km NEN of Zharkent, 15 km NEN of village Sarybel', mountain massif Tyshkantau, the Southern Dzhungarian Alatau mountain chain (NE part of Tien Shan), Zharkent District, Taldy-Kurgan Province, SE Kazakhstan. 25th July 1994, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia ocnus tianschanica
[tianschanica-1v.jpg] 504x343 (~43Kb) uns An alpine meadow at 3000 m above sea level in the Tyshkan River headwaters, 42 km NEN of Zharkent, 18 km NEN of village Sarybel', mountain massif Tyshkantau, the Southern Dzhungarian Alatau mountain chain (NE part of Tien Shan), Zharkent District, Taldy-Kurgan Province, SE Kazakhstan. 26th July 1994, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia theano
[theano-1fv.jpg] 642x450 (~72Kb) uns female A steppefied meadow at a larch wood edge on a 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 Allium), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia theano
[theano-1mv.jpg] 804x516 (~83Kb) 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 Aster alpinus L.), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia theano
[theano-2amu.jpg] 1230x994 (~268Kb) 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. 2rd July 2007 (on Alchemilla), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia theano
[theano-2bmu.jpg] 918x1058 (~210Kb) 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. 2rd July 2007 (on Alchemilla), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia theano approximata
[approximata-1fu.jpg] 831x1078 (~274Kb) ups female 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
Erebia theano approximata
[approximata-1mfv.jpg] 1125x893 (~279Kb) uns male female A meadow on the Peschanaya River left bank between the villages of Baragash and Ilyinka, Shebalino District, Altai Republic, West Siberia. Russia. 1st July 2005, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia callias altajana
[altajana-1fu.jpg] 533x400 (~70Kb) ups female A tundrous ridge of a cirque, at 2500 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. 15th July, 1988, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia callias altajana
[altajana-1fv.jpg] 339x400 (~44Kb) uns female A tundrous ridge of a cirque, at 2500 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. 15th July, 1988, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia callias altajana
[altajana-2fv.jpg] 600x453 (~59Kb) uns female Highland tundras of Kobresia myosuroides on of the southerm principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain at the the Chikty Rivulet headwaters, 2400 m above sea level, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 15th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia callias altajana
[altajana-2fvx.jpg] 738x829 (~145Kb) uns female Highland tundras of Kobresia myosuroides on of the southerm principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain at the the Chikty Rivulet headwaters, 2400 m above sea level, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 15th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia callias altajana
[altajana-3fu.jpg] 700x889 (~148Kb) ups female Highland tundras of Kobresia myosuroides on of the southerm principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain at the the Chikty Rivulet headwaters, 2400 m above sea level, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 15th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia pandrose yernikensis
[yernikensis-1v.jpg] 484x400 (~52Kb) uns A dwarf birch (Betula rotundifolia Spach.)/Kobresia myosuroides (Vill.) Fiori et Paol. montane tundra at 2200 m above sea level in the Argem (Direntai) Stream basin, 15 km W of the village Dzhazatr, on the eastern spurs of the Katunskiy Mt. Range, Kosh-Agach District, Central Altai Mts., West Siberia, Russia. 13th July, 1988, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia pandrose yernikensis
[yernikensis-2u.jpg] 1006x758 (~205Kb) ups A boggy alpine meadow, 2400 m above sea level, in the valley of the rivulet descending from the southern principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range between Chikty and Akbul Rivulets, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 11th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia pandrose yernikensis
[yernikensis-2ux.jpg] 617x392 (~66Kb) ups A boggy alpine meadow, 2400 m above sea level, in the valley of the rivulet descending from the southern principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range between Chikty and Akbul Rivulets, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 11th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia pandrose yernikensis
[yernikensis-2v.jpg] 781x600 (~105Kb) uns 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
Erebia pandrose yernikensis
[yernikensis-2vx.jpg] 808x600 (~112Kb) uns An alpine meadow at the bank of the left headwater 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, the Altai Mts., West Siberia, Russia. 10th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia pandrose yernikensis
[yernikensis-3u.jpg] 752x796 (~159Kb) ups A mountain tundra on the Saylyg-Khem-Taiga mountain range being a part of the West Sayan mountain chain, at the Sayanskii pass of the road Abaza-Ak-Dovurak, 2300 m above sea level, 51°42' N 89°52' E, the border of Khakass and Tyva Republics, Siberia, Russia. 7th July 2000, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia cyclopius
[cyclopius-1mu.jpg] 498x503 (~49Kb) ups male An open pine forest on the hill just north of the Chita City, Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 17th June 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia cyclopius
[cyclopius-2u.jpg] 767x610 (~235Kb) ups The lower reaches of the Oroktoi brook, a right tributary of the Akkem River, a spruce/larch riverine forest margin, the Katunskii Range northern principal slope, Central [Russian] Altai Mts., Ust'-Koksa District, Altai Rapublic, West Siberia, Russia. 7th July 2007 (on Anthriscus aemula), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia rossii erda
[erda-1v.jpg] 819x763 (~138Kb) uns A large stoned ancient moraine in the source of the rivulet descending from the southerm principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range between the Chikty and Akbul Rivulets, 2700 m above sea level, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West SIberia, Russia. 11th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia rossii erda
[erda-2am.jpg] 1214x1201 (~816Kb) male A large-stone scree at 2400 m above sea level on a northern slope of the mountain with the Skynchak cliff at, the Tekelyu River right bank, the Akkem River basin, the Katunskii Range northern principal slope, Central [Russian] Altai Mts., Ust'-Koksa District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 1st July 2007, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Erebia rossii erda
[erda-2bmv.jpg] 1084x813 (~322Kb) uns male A large-stone scree at 2400 m above sea level on a northern slope of the mountain with the Skynchak cliff at, the Tekelyu River right bank, the Akkem River basin, the Katunskii Range northern principal slope, Central [Russian] Altai Mts., Ust'-Koksa District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 1st July 2007, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Aphantopus hyperantus
[hyperantus-a1mv.jpg] 548x738 (~108Kb) uns male Russia, West Siberia, border of Altai Republic and Altaiskii Krai, a meadowy slope on the Anui River right bank at Chenyi Anui village. 2 July 2005 (caught by Thomisidae spider), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Aphantopus hyperantus alpheois
[alpheois-1fu.jpg] 533x400 (~58Kb) ups female 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
Hyponephele lycaon
[lycaon-1fv.jpg] 600x442 (~71Kb) uns female 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
Hyponephele lycaon
[lycaon-1l.jpg] 800x600 (~60Kb) larva A meadow on the Shadrikha Rivulet right bank just downstream of the village Mel'nichikha (Shadrikha), Novosibirsk District and Province, West Siberia, Russia. June 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Hyponephele lycaon
[lycaon-1mfv.jpg] 533x400 (~69Kb) uns male female A rocky steppefied south-exposed slope on the left bank of the Koksu River 2 km of its junction with the Dzhazatr River, 1600 m above sea level, the eastern spurs of the Katunskiy moutain range, Central Altai Mts., West Siberia, Russia. 25th July 1988, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Hyponephele lycaon
[lycaon-1mv.jpg] 631x747 (~101Kb) uns male Open larch forest on the left bank of the Dzhazator River in its upper flow, between the falls of its right tributaries Chikty and Akbul, 2000 m above sea level, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 18th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Hyponephele lupinus intermedia
[intermedia-1mfv.jpg] 533x400 (~50Kb) uns male female A meadowy steppe on the bluff of the NE bank of Lake Solenoe, 6 km SW of the village Mironovka, Chistozerskiy District, Novosibirsk Province, West Siberia, Russia. 26th June 1994, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Hyponephele naubidensis
[naubidensis-1v.jpg] 586x650 (~89Kb) uns A southern herbaceous and stony slope within the Tien Shan spruce (Picea schrenkiana Fisch. et Mey.) forest belt, at 2800 m altitude, on the right bank of the Chiliksay Stream - a right tributary of the Sargir River (the Usek River basin), 48 km N of Zharkent, 20 km N of village Sarybel', the mountain massif Tyshkantau, the Southern Dzhungarian Alatau mountain chain (NE part of Tien Shan), Zharkent District, Taldy-Kurgan Province, NE Kazakhstan. 31st of July 1994, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Maniola jurtina
[jurtina-8fv.jpg] 794x707 (~163Kb) uns female Russia, North Caucasus, Adygea Republic, Maikop, Khanskaya stanitsa, a meadow on the Belaya River right bank. 11th July 2008, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Maniola jurtina
[jurtina-9fxu.jpg] 1391x1017 (~453Kb) ups female Russia, West Siberia, Omsk, Gorodok Vodnikov Park. 19th July 2007, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Maniola jurtina
[jurtina-9fyu.jpg] 1089x770 (~271Kb) ups female Russia, West Siberia, Omsk, Gorodok Vodnikov Park. 19th July 2007, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Maniola jurtina
[jurtina-9fzu.jpg] 1120x803 (~220Kb) ups female Russia, West Siberia, Omsk, Gorodok Vodnikov Park. 19th July 2007, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Maniola jurtina
[jurtina-9mxv.jpg] 1097x800 (~300Kb) uns male Russia, West Siberia, Omsk, the 30th Anniversary of Victory Park. 15th July 2007 (on Sorbaria sorbifolia), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Maniola jurtina
[jurtina-9myv.jpg] 973x1106 (~279Kb) uns male Russia, West Siberia, Omsk, the 30th Anniversary of Victory Park. 15th July 2007 (on Sorbaria sorbifolia), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Maniola jurtina
[jurtina-9mzv.jpg] 795x923 (~203Kb) uns male Russia, West Siberia, Omsk, the 30th Anniversary of Victory Park. 15th July 2007 (on Sorbaria sorbifolia), 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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