Hipparchia autonoe (Esper, 1784).
An example how invisible may be Satyrids in their arid habitats, even mating, and how they like to sit on stones.
Range: the steppe and forest-steppe zones from the Volga to the Amur Rivers.
ssp.: autonoe (Esper, 1784); range: east to the Altai Mts.
A copulating pair; wings closed.
A steppefied southern slope of small mountains on the Dzhazator River right bank in front of the Akbul Rivulet mouth, between the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range and the Ukok Plateau, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West SIberia, Russia. 12th July 1998. O. Kosterin.