Heodes virgaureae (Linnaeus, 1758) (= Lycaena virgaureae) - Scarce Copper.

Range: the temperate Euroasia north to the middle taiga zone.

ssp.: virgaureola (Staudinger, 1892) (= mongolica (Kurenzov, 1970)); range: the southern Central SIberia, Mongolia, Transbaikalia.

wings closed.

A meadow, with Medicago dominating, on the Tes-Khem River right bank in front of the Shivilig-Khem valley, the Ubsu-Nur intermontane hollow, Tes-Khem District, Tuva Republic, Siberia, Russia. 9th July 1990. O. Kosterin.