Plebejus pylaon (Fischer de Waldheim, 1832)
Range: SE Europe, S Ural, N and E Kazakhstan, the southern W.
Siberia, Altai, the Kuznetskoe Upland.
ssp.: katunensis Balint et Lukhtanov, 1990 - Central Altai
A male on a fresh horse dung.
Also seen Plebicula amanda (Schneider, 1792).
The lower Oroktoi brook valley, a right tributary of the Akkem River, the Katunskii Range northern principal slope, Central
[Russian} Altai Mts., Ust'-Koksa District, Altai Rapublic, West Siberia, Russia. 7th July 2007. O. Kosterin.