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Images from Oleg Kosterin

Nymphalis c-aureum 762x626 (~81Kb) uns A small pond in the forest, Seonheul-ri, Jocheon-eup, Bukjeju-gun, Jeju-do Island, S Korea. 31st of July 2002, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Nymphalis c-album 742x478 (~47Kb) The Bol'shoy Tesh River right bank in its low reaches, 2 km upstream of its junction with the Kondoma River. 17th September 1994 (butterflies greedily suck a rotten Gastromyces fungus (?Lycoperdales gen. sp.)), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Junonia orithya wallacei 801x817 (~126Kb) uns Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, a vasting land behind the Jomtien beach, 1th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Junonia orithya wallacei 1172x885 (~128Kb) ups male Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya environs, Ko Lan island, ruderal vegeation at a roadside. 15th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Junonia hierta 753x957 (~98Kb) uns Thailand, Chanthaburi, Khao-Kitchakut National Park, the park at the headquarters. 4th January 2006 , Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Junonia hierta 713x867 (~72Kb) uns Thailand, Chanthaburi, Khao-Kitchakut National Park, the park at the headquarters. 4th January 2006 , Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Junonia hierta 689x765 (~81Kb) ups Thailand, Chanthaburi, Khao-Kitchakut National Park, the park at the headquarters. 4th January 2006 , Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Junonia hierta 753x641 (~57Kb) ups Cambodia, Siem Reap, Angkor Wat. 8th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Junonia hierta 967x834 (~78Kb) ups Cambodia, Siem Reap, Angkor Wat. 8th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Junonia hierta 681x857 (~59Kb) uns Cambodia, Siem Reap, Angkor Wat. 8th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Junonia atlites 1157x927 (~111Kb) ups Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien beach, a wasting land behind Jomtien Holiday Hotel, 2nd January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Junonia atlites 1153x1067 (~138Kb) Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Si Racha environs, the Chan-ta-Then River valley at lower reaches, 14th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Junonia atlites 1076x875 (~111Kb) uns Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Si Racha environs, the Chan-ta-Then River valley at lower reaches, 14th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Junonia almana 680x878 (~52Kb) Thailand, Chon Buri Province, a small pool at the lake at Bang Phra. 1st February 2005, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Junonia almana 1031x880 (~89Kb) uns Thailand, Chon Buri Province, a small pool at the lake at Bang Phra. 1st February 2005, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Junonia almana 779x791 (~111Kb) ups Thailand, Chantaburi Province, Khao-Khitchakut National Park, a park at the headquarters, 7th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Junonia almana 612x772 (~60Kb) uns Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Si Racha environs, the Chan-ta-Then River valley at lower reaches, 14th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Junonia lemonias 711x594 (~126Kb) ups Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, a chain of muddy pools behind the chain of hitels along the Jomtien Beach. 25th January 2005, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Junonia lemonias 1098x906 (~123Kb) uns Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya environs, Ko Khram island, a spiny bamboo forest at a beach. 2nd February 2005, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Junonia lemonias 993x829 (~108Kb) uns 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, 15th January, 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Hypolimnas bolina 748x591 (~76Kb) female Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien Beach, Natural Park Resort. 25th January 2005, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Hypolimnas bolina 876x1134 (~163Kb) female Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien Beach, Natural Park Resort. 25th January 2005, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Hypolimnas bolina 740x534 (~67Kb) female Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Jomtien Beach, Natural Park Resort. 25th January 2005, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Hypolimnas bolina 1044x1110 (~149Kb) male Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, Ko Khram Island, Saikaew beach, a side of a road through shrubbery along coast, 3rd February, 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Hypolimnas bolina 876x915 (~119Kb) uns male Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya environs, Ko Lan island, ruderal vegeation at a roadside. 15th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Hypolimnas misippus 1224x918 (~210Kb) ups male Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya environs, Ko Lan island, ruderal vegeation at a roadside. 15th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Euphydryas maturna staudingeri 392x393 (~14Kb) uns female A hillock swamped meadow at a riparian spruce wood at the vllage Topuchaya, Shebalino District, Altai Republic, the Altai Mts., S Siberia, Russia. 8th July 1998 (on Pentaphylloides fruticosa), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Euphydryas maturna staudingeri 480x408 (~41Kb) ups male A forb meadowy edge of a birch forest, the lower part of the Kora River valley, the Mynchukur mountain range, the northern chain of the Dzhungarian Alatau Mts., Taldy-Kurgan Province, SE Kazakhstan. 13th June 1994, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Euphydryas ichnea ichnea 547x400 (~46Kb) ups male Dwarf pine/dwarf alder forest-tundra at about 1000 m above sea level, the mountains of the Koni Peninsula, Ola District, S Magadan Province, Russia. 23rd July 1989 (on Ledum palustre), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Euphydryas ichnea altaiana 906x600 (~84Kb) ups female Dwarf birch (Betula rotundifolia) thickets 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. 19th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Euphydryas iduna 860x520 (~80Kb) ups (info missing), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Euphydryas iduna alferakyi 533x400 (~58Kb) uns A subalpine meadow at the dwarf pine (Pinus pumila (Pall.) Regel) thickets on the southen slope of a pass between Khindzha and Burgauli valleys, in a valley of a left tributary of the latter, about 500 m above sea level, the mountains of the Koni Peninsula, Ola District, S Magadan Province, Russia. 12th July, 1989, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Euphydryas iduna sajana 457x500 (~42Kb) uns Highland dwarf birch (Betula rotundifolia) tundras on a ledge of the southerm 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. 15th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Euphydryas aurinia banghaasi 684x616 (~64Kb) ups female 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 (on Viola altaiaca), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Euphydryas aurinia banghaasi 527x440 (~21Kb) ups male 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	Euphydryas aurinia banghaasi 762x503 (~54Kb) ups 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
Euphydryas asiatica 533x400 (~60Kb) ups male A meadow in the lower valley of the Kora River about 10 km upstream of the Tekeli City (1300 m above sea level), the North Dzhungarskiy Alatau mountain chain (NE part of Tien Shan), Kopal District, Taldy-Kurgan Province, SE Kazakhstan. 13th June 1993, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Euphydryas sibirica davidi 800x600 (~151Kb) ups Wet ground at the pool in the pine forest called Tsasucheiskii Bor at the village Nizhnii Tsasuchei, Onon District, SE Chita Province, Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 22nd June 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Euphydryas sibirica davidi 450x600 (~56Kb) uns A meadow on the bank of Lake Butyvken, surrounded by a magnificent pine forest within a steppe zone called Tsasucheiskii Bor, 10 km SW of the village Nizhnii Tsasuchei, Onon District, SE Chita Province, Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 25th June 1995 (a congregation), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Mellicta athalia 600x800 (~118Kb) uns male female A forest meadow in open asp/birch wood in the surroundings of Akademgorodok [Academy Town], Novosibirsk, West SIberia, Russia. 27th May 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Mellicta ambigua kenteana 400x533 (~40Kb) uns male An open pine forest on the hill just north of the Chita City, Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 28th June 1996, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Mellicta centralasiae 383x300 (~34Kb) ups female A bushy meadow on the second right bank terrace of the Koen River at the mouth of the Volchikha Rivulet, just downstream of the village Nizhnii Koen, Iskitim District, Novosibirsk Province, West Siberia, Russiae. 4th July 1992, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Mellicta centralasiae 598x676 (~76Kb) uns male female An open pine forest on the Onon River right bank terrace, 5 km upstream of the village Nizhnii Tsasuchei, Onon District, Chita Province, S Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia, 5th July 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Mellicta centralasiae 644x596 (~47Kb) male female Highland dwarf birch (Betula rotundifolia) tundras on a ledge of the southerm 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. 15th July 1998 (A pair making courtship), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Mellicta centralasiae 548x400 (~44Kb) ups Highland dwarf birch tundras 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
Mellicta centralasiae 622x400 (~30Kb) uns Highland dwarf birch tundras 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	Mellicta plotina standeli 533x400 (~52Kb) ups female A damp meadow in the Shadrikha Rivulet valley 2 km upstream of the village Mel'nichikha, Novosibirsk District and Province, West Siberia, Russia. 29th June 1994, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Mellicta plotina standeli 400x300 (~27Kb) uns male A swampy meadow in the Shadrikha Rivulet valley 2 km upstream of the village Mel'nichikha, Novosibirsk District and Province, West Siberia, Russia. 18th July 1992, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Mellicta alatauica 400x300 (~31Kb) ups female A meadow in the middle valley of the Kora River, 23 km NE of the Tekeli City (1700 m above sea level), the North Dzhungarskiy Alatau mountain chain (NE part of Tien Shan), the Taldy-Kurgan Province, SE Kazakhstan. 13th June 1993, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Mellicta alatauica 400x300 (~35Kb) ups male A meadow in the middle valley of the Kora River, 23 km NE of the Tekeli City (1700 m above sea level), the North Dzhungarskiy Alatau mountain chain (NE part of Tien Shan), the Taldy-Kurgan Province, SE Kazakhstan. 13th June 1993, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Melitaea didyma neera 820x480 (~92Kb) larva A high steppefied right bank of the Shipunikha Rivulet 3 km NE of the village Evsino, Iskitim district, Novosibirsk Province, West Siberia, Russia. 8th June 1996 (on a leaf of Phlomis tuberosa L.), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
Melitaea latonigena altaica 461x700 (~58Kb) uns male female A subalpine short forb meadow on an opening in an open larch forest on the southern principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range between the Chikty and Akbul Rivulets , 2100 m above sea level, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 16th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Melitaea latonigena altaica 400x533 (~49Kb) uns male An alpine meadow, at 2200 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. 14th July, 1988, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	Melitaea latonigena altaica 429x668 (~28Kb) uns A larch parkland between the Chikty and Akbul Rivulets, 2000 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 Veronica porphyriana), Photo © Oleg Kosterin