Calopteryx japonica Selys, 1869 altaica Belyshev, 1955

An East Palaearctic species ranging west to Altai, the northernmost calopterygid damselfly (reaches 60oN at the Podkamennaya Tunguska River

A male

Russia, West Siberia, Kemerovo Province, Novokuznetsk District, piedmonts of the Gornaya Shoria Mt., willow bushes on the, the Kondoma River right bank just upstream the town of Osinniki. 25th July 1996.

O. Kosterin

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