Tongeia fischeri (Eversmann, 1843) (= Everis fischeri).
This tiny species is strictly connected to
dry rocky slopes or stony steppes where its foodlplants,
the succulent Orostachys spp. (O. spinosa (L.) C.A. Meyer, O.
malacophylla (Pallas) Fischer) grow. It gives two-three broods.
Range: from SE Europe to Japan, south to the Dzhungarian Alatau Mts. and Mongolia.
ssp.: fischeri (Eversmann, 1843); range: except for the Sakhalin and ? Japan.
A male
Russia, West Siberia, the western Altai Mts., Yanbochi valley at the Kyrlyk
River headwaters 8 km SE of Kyrlyk village, a mud at a karst spring at
a limestone hill foot. 6th July 2005. O. Kosterin.