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.
wings closed.
A herb meadow at the northern foot of the Seminskii Pass, Shebalino District, Altai Republic, the Altai Mts., West Siberia, Russia. 29th June 1989 O. Kosterin.


Ареал: С. Африка, Европа, Передняя и Средняя Азия. Урал, Сибирь (на север до средней тайги, Монголия, юг Дальнего Востока России, С и СВ Китай, Корея.
ssp.: strandi Obraztsov, 1935 (= monarchus Higgins, 1982); ареал: Сибирь, Приамурье.

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