Aricia artaxerxes (Fabricius, 1793) (= Aricia allous (Huebner, 1819); = Aricia astrarche auct.; = Polyommatus allous; = Polyommatus artaxerxes) - Mountain Argus.
Range: N Africa, Europe, Anterior and Central Asia, Ural, Siberia (north to the middle taiga zone), the southern Russian Far East, Mongolia, N and NE China, Korea.
ssp.: strandi Obraztsov, 1935 (= monarchus Higgins, 1982); range: Siberia, Amurland.
A male, wings closed.
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. O. Kosterin.