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Images from Oleg Kosterin

Cupido minimus 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 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 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 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 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 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 679x800 (~156Kb) uns female Russia, Khabarovskiy Kray, Khabarovsk southern env., Bychikha village. 7th July 2014, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Cupido alcetas 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 1175x1028 (~383Kb) uns male Cambodia, Preah Sihanouk Province, Ream Peninsula, a grassy swamp at Coconut Beach, 11th November 2018, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Cupido lacturnus 1104x1142 (~371Kb) uns male Cambodia, Preah Sihanouk Province, Ream Peninsula, a grassy swamp at Coconut Beach, 11th November 2018, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Tongeia fischeri 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 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 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 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 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