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Images from Oleg Kosterin

Oeneis nanna 826x859 (~252Kb) uns 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. 10th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Oeneis urda 533x400 (~40Kb) uns male An open pine forest on the hill just north of the Chita City, Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 17th June 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Oeneis tarpeia 486x392 (~47Kb) uns A 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
Oeneis tarpeia 1307x998 (~233Kb) uns female A patch of a Festuca valesiaca/Carex praecox steppe at birch groves at Podgorodka, Omsk District and Province, West Siberia, Russia 7th June 2004, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Oeneis tarpeia 658x949 (~157Kb) uns female A patch of a Festuca valesiaca/Carex praecox steppe at birch groves at Podgorodka, Omsk District and Province, West Siberia, Russia 7th June 2004, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Oeneis tarpeia 1211x1001 (~282Kb) uns male A patch of a Festuca valesiaca/Carex praecox steppe at birch groves at Podgorodka, Omsk District and Province, West Siberia, Russia 7th June 2004, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Oeneis tarpeia 1000x1000 (~143Kb) ups female Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarskii Krai Province, Sharypovo District, 5 km NNE of v. Parnaya, 55°19'N 89°16'E, alt. 500-600 m, meadowy steppe on southern slope, birch/larch forest edges. 1/VII 2000 (on Goniolimon speciosum), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Oeneis lederi grossi 386x400 (~50Kb) uns female A meadow steppe on a moderate elevation Adon-Chelon, at the Tsagan-Obo mountain, 10 km NNW of the village Tasyrkhoi, SE Chita Province (Dahuria), Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia, 19th June 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Pseudochazara hippolyte 742x500 (~90Kb) uns A dry delta [sair] of the Shivilig-Khem River descending from the East Tannu-Ola mountain range being a northern border of the Ubsu-Nur Hollow, Tes-Khem District, the southern Tuva Rapublic, S Siberia, Russia. 16th July 1990, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Pseudochazara hippolyte dörriesi[sic=doerriesi] 1200x1200 (~262Kb) uns Russia, Siberia, Tyva Republic, the hills on the Ulug-Khem River right bank at city Kyzyl, 51°43' N 94°24' E, alt. 650-700 m, dry stony steppe. 9/VII 2000, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Pseudochazara thelephassa 1364x1196 (~335Kb) uns Iran, Ostan-e Markazi, Shahrestan-e Arak, Anjedan (Anjudan) village, mountain foot, 22nd May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Pseudochazara thelephassa 1304x909 (~288Kb) uns Iran, Ostan-e Markazi, Shahrestan-e Arak, Anjedan (Anjudan) village, mountain foot, 22nd May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Pseudochazara thelephassa 1133x1149 (~378Kb) Iran, Ostan-e Markazi, Shakhrestan-e Tafresh , Tafresh City environs, Shilanevar valley, 2036 m a.s.l., the lower pond, 29th May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Pseudochazara thelephassa 1267x956 (~421Kb) uns Iran, Lorestan, Borujerd Shakhrestan, the Hayan village environs, Chenar Chashmah. 25th May 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Satyrus ferula virbius 533x400 (~62Kb) ups female A juniper/oak parkland on the Black Sea coast at the settlement Simeiz, Crimea, Ukraine. 30th June 1991, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Satyrus ferula liupiuschani 584x381 (~37Kb) uns male A rocky southern slope of a piedmont hill of the mountain Gydyrgun on the northern bank of Lake Zun-Torei, Onon District, SE Chita Province (Dahuria), Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 13th July 1996, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Satyrus ferula medvedevi 1373x881 (~380Kb) ups female Russia, Central Siberia, Tyva Republic (Tuva), Chaa-Khol' Kozhuun, the Khan-Deer cluster of the Ubsunurskaya Kotlovina Nature Reserve, the Khemchik River lower reaches at the Idig-Khonchu cordone, 620 m above sea level, the right bank. 1st July 2004, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Satyrus ferula medvedevi 533x400 (~64Kb) uns female A dry steppe on the southern slope of the East Tannu-Ola mounatin range at the Shivilig-Khem River valley, Tes-Khem District, Tuva Republic, Siberia, Russia. 23rd July 1990, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Satyrus ferula medvedevi 1100x849 (~302Kb) ups male Russia, Central Siberia, Tyva Republic (Tuva), Chaa-Khol' Kozhuun, the Khan-Deer cluster of the Ubsunurskaya Kotlovina Nature Reserve, the Khemchik River lower reaches at the Idig-Khonchu cordone, 620 m above sea level, the right bank. 1st July 2004, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Satyrus ferula medvedevi 1268x902 (~247Kb) ups male Russia, Central Siberia, Tyva Republic (Tuva), Chaa-Khol' Kozhuun, the Khan-Deer cluster of the Ubsunurskaya Kotlovina Nature Reserve, the Khemchik River lower reaches at the Idig-Khonchu cordone, 620 m above sea level, the right bank. 1st July 2004, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Ypthima sp. 684x754 (~82Kb) ups Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Ko Khram Island, Saikaew beach, a bank of a pond in a wood near the coast, 3rd February, 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Ypthima sp. 816x612 (~79Kb) ups Thailand, Chantaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a floating bog on a bank of the pond at headquarters. 30th January 2005, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Ypthima sp. 743x786 (~67Kb) uns Thailand, Chantaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a floating bog on a bank of the pond at headquarters. 30th January 2005, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Ypthima sp. 928x820 (~101Kb) uns Thailand, Chantaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a bank of the pond at headquarters. 7th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Ypthima sp. 1137x989 (~250Kb) uns male female Thailand, Phuket, a garden in the Nai Yang beach area. 16th February 2009, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Ypthima sp. 810x827 (~203Kb) uns Thailand, Phuket, a bank of a pond at a road 1 km NE of Khao Sai Tan Kliang Mt., 18th February 2009, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Ypthima sp. 1066x955 (~257Kb) uns Cambodia, Kep Province, Kep. 22th April 2010, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Ypthima sp. 846x819 (~194Kb) uns Cambodia, Kep Province, Kep, Treetop Buingalow. 6th December 2010, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Ypthima sp. 861x909 (~89Kb) uns Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, a vasting land with open tree stand behind the Jomtien beach, 1st February, 2005, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Ypthima baldus 980x901 (~186Kb) uns Russia, Khabarovskiy Kray, Khabarovsk southern env., Korfovskiy settlement. 11th July 2014, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Ypthima baldus 1000x699 (~120Kb) uns An edge of a shady bamboo forest at Dragonfly Biotope Ponds, Hiraoka, Ikazaki-cho, Ehime-ken, Shikoku-Chiho, Japan. 7th August 2002 Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Ypthima asterope 902x657 (~199Kb) uns Ethiopia, Oromia, Debre Libanos env., at German Ethio Lodge, the Gur River right bank. 30th July 2012, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Ypthima asterope 880x615 (~228Kb) uns Ethiopia, Oromia, Debre Libanos env., at German Ethio Lodge, the Gur River right bank. 30th July 2012, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Ypthima asterope 1100x1100 (~375Kb) ups Ethiopia, Oromia, Debre Libanos env., at German Ethio Lodge, the Gur River right bank. 30th July 2012, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Ypthima multistriata ganus 1700x1912 (~385Kb) ups Russia, Khabarovskiy Kray, Khabarovsk District, the Amurskaya Protoka arm of the Amur River just downstream of the Sosnenskiy brook mouth, 24.07.2020, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Cethosia cyane 535x625 (~115Kb) Cambodia, Mondukliri Province, a forest brook in rocky valley downstream Buu Sraa Waterfalls, 9th June 2014, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Cethosia cyane 736x893 (~97Kb) ups female Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien beach, a wasting land behind Jomtien Holiday Hotel, 2nd January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Cethosia cyane 589x847 (~88Kb) uns female Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien beach, a wasting land behind Jomtien Holiday Hotel, 2nd January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Cethosia cyane 1344x1122 (~198Kb) ups male Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien beach, a wasting land behind Jomtien Holiday Hotel, 4th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Cethosia cyane 1130x918 (~152Kb) uns male Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien beach, a wasting land behind Jomtien Holiday Hotel, 4th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Acraea violae 998x827 (~179Kb) uns male Cambodia, Kampot Province, Bokor Hill Station, 31st March 2015, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Acraea violae 1152x958 (~98Kb) uns male Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, a small grassy swamp with cattail and reed, surrounded by trees, at the Jomtien beach, between B.O. Guesthouse and Jomtien Metro Condotel, 2nd February, 2005, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Acraea violae 927x732 (~119Kb) ups female Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien beach, a wasting land behind Jomtien Holiday Hotel, 2nd January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Acraea violae 1116x1077 (~146Kb) male female Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien beach, a wasting land behind Jomtien Holiday Hotel, 2nd January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Acraea violae 1308x1000 (~169Kb) ups male Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien beach, a wasting land behind Jomtien Holiday Hotel, 2nd January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Acraea violae 765x816 (~76Kb) uns male Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien beach, a wasting land behind Jomtien Holiday Hotel, 2nd January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Acraea violae 1042x852 (~79Kb) larva Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien beach, a wasting land behind Jomtien Holiday Hotel, 2nd January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Acraea violae 810x1224 (~111Kb) larva Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, a small grassy swamp with cattail and reed, surrounded by trees, at the Jomtien beach, between B.O. Guesthouse and Jomtien Metro Condotel, 12th January, 2006 (praepupa), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Acraea violae 660x942 (~95Kb) Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya environs, Ko Lan island, ruderal vegeation at a roadside. 15th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Acraea violae 1337x943 (~212Kb) ups Cambodia, Ratanakiri Province, Ban Lung, at Kan Seng Lake, 31st May 2013, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Telchinia necoda 1201x991 (~392Kb) ups Ethiopia, Amhara, a wet grassland at Guna Mt., 5 km NWW of Sali. 5th August 2012, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Argynnis paphia 533x400 (~48Kb) uns male female A pine forest edge, Akademgorodok [Academy Town], Novosibirsk, West Siberia, Russia. 11th July 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Argynnis paphia 621x414 (~48Kb) A long forb meadow at the Adagum River right bank, the town Krymsk, Krymsk District, Krasnodarskii Krai Province, S Russia. 27th June 1991 (A small congregation on a large inflorescence of Heracleum dissectum), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Argynnis hyperbius 658x514 (~114Kb) ups 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