Aglais caschmirensis (Kollar, 1844).

An example of aberration (probably, an environmental modification which can be anticipated in high mountains like these, with their unstable temperature regime) characterized by enlarged and expanded yellow elements of the pattern.

ssp.: nixa Grum-Grshimailo, 1890; range: Pamir and Pamiro-Alai.

wings open.

A large-stoned scree, at about 2500 m altitude in the headwaters of the Artuch River, Fanskie Gory - a mountain massif between the Zeravshanskii and Ghissarskii mountain ranges, Tadjikistan. 30th April 1991. Oleg Kosterin.