Melitaea arcesia Bremer, 1861 (= Melitaea baicalensis
Bremer, 1861).
Range: the mountains of S Siberia, Central Yakutia, Magadan
Province, Amurland, Primorye, Mongolia, North and Central China.
Ssp: minor Elwes, 1899 (?= carmana Fruhstorfer, 1915): Altai,
Tuva, the Sayans.
A female, wings closed; on Tripleurospermum ambiguum.
An alpine meadow in the valley of a headwater of the
Chikty Rivulet, 2500 m above sea level, the southern principle
slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range, the upper Dzhazator
River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia,
Russia. 15th July 1998. O. Kosterin.