Euphydryas maturna (Linnaeus, 1758).
This species is included into IUCN Red List. This is a sad example
when IUCN disregards the data from the main part of a species
range within Russia when making its decision. In European Russia
and Siberia this species is quite common.
Range: the temperate Eurasia, except for the Far East, eastwards
to Central Yakutia and E Transbaikalia, in the North lovcally
reaches the forest-tundra zone.
ssp.: staudingeri Wnukowsky, 1929 (= uralensis Staudinger, 1852);
range: Siberia.
A male on Caravay Carum carvi.
Kuzuyak Pass between the lower valleys of Akkem and Kucherla, the Katunskii Range northern principal slope, Central
[Russian} Altai Mts., Ust'-Koksa District, Altai Rapublic, West Siberia, Russia. 26th June 2007. O. Kosterin.