Range: The taiga zone of Eurasia and coniferous forest belt in the Asian mountains.
ssp. hypercala (Fruhstorfer, 1907); range: the mountains of South Siberia.
A female, wings closed
A grassy open larch forest on the Yabaganskii Pass (1400 m above sea level) through the Seminskii mountain range, the northern Altai Mts., West Siberia, Russia. 11th July 1999. Photo: O. Kosterin.