Lysandra corydonius (Herrich-Schaffner, [1851])
Range: the Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Turkey, N Iran.
ssp.: melamarina (Dantshenko, 2000); range: NW Caucasus, Turkey, N. Iran.
A copulating pair; wings closed.
The foot of a coastal (the Black Sea) lime-stone hill at Kabardinka settlement , Gelendzhik District, Krasnodarskiy Kray Province, Russia. 10th June 1990. O. Kosterin.