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 female, wings open, on Veronica porphyriana.

A dry Kobresia tundra patch among dwarf birch tundras on a ledge between the Chikty Rivulet and a next upstream right tributary of the Dzhazator River upper flow, 2400 m above sea level, the southern principal slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 15th July 1998. O. Kosterin.

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