Polyommatus icarus (Linnaeus, 1758) - Common Blue.
Range: N Africa, the non-tropical Euroasia north to the forest-tundra zone.
ssp.: fuchsi Sheljuzhko, 1928; range: the West-Siberian Lowland.
A copulating pair; wings closed.
A meadow at the settlement Novyi Poselok at the town Berdsk, Novosibirsk District and Province, West Siberia, Russia. 4th August 1996. O. Kosterin.