Damora sagana (Doubleday, 1847) (= Argynnis sagana; = Argynnis paulina Nord.).

Range: South Siberia east of the Ob' River basin (locally), East Asia.

ssp.: relicta Korshunov, 1984; range: the western range east to the Sayan piedmonts.

A mature larva

A southern slope, overgrown with bushes of Spiraea and Caragana arborescens, of the valley of a brook being a left tributary of the Bol'shoi Tesh River 2 km upstream of its junction with the Malyi Tesh, within the famous "lime-tree island" of the forests of a relic species Tilia sibirica Fisch., 10 km east of the village Kuzedeevo, the elevation of Gornaya Shoriya, Novokuznetsk District, Kemerovo Province, West Siberia, Russia. 21st May 1995. O. Kosterin

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