Plebejus idas (Bergstrasser, 1779)
Range: the temperate Euroasia north to the southern taiga zone, east to E Yakutia and the Magadan Province, North America.
ssp.: sailjugemicus Zhdanko et Samodurov in Zhdanko, 1999; range: highlands of C and SE Altai.
A male, wings half open.
An subalpine meadow, at 2000 m above sea level, on the eastern spurs of the Katunskiy Mt. Range, the valley of the Argem (Direntai) stream, Central Altai Mts., West Siberia, Russia. 13th July, 1988. Oleg Kosterin.