Brinthesia circe (Fabricius, 1775) - Grand Banded Grayling

It's obviously an overexposured shot but this gave a strange and, I'd said, nice effect: two individuals look "floating" in an unreal mass of flowers. In fact this shot shows a common habitat of B. circe: a Mediterranian phrygana being rather arid grassland with open stands of oaks, pistacho-trees and arboreal junipers.

Range: Europe, Asia Minor, Iran, the Himalayas.

ssp.: circe (Fabricius, 1775); range: Europe.

Two individuals, wings closed, feeding on Psephelus sp.

An open pistachio-tree/oak/juniper stand (phrygana) on the western slope of the Svyataya mountain, Kara-Dag Nature Reserve, Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine. 8th July 1991. O. Kosterin.