Erebia callias Edwards, 1871.

Range: the Tarbagatai Mts. (SE Kazakhstan), the mountains of S and NE Siberia and N Mongolia, south to Kentei Mts. and north-east to the Cherskogo Mts., Kamchatka, the mountains of Colorado in North America.

ssp.: altajana Staudinger, 1901; range: the Altai and West Sayan Mts.

A female; wings closed

A tundrous ridge of a cirque, at 2500 m above sea level, on the eastern spurs of the Katunskiy Mt. Range, the valley of the Argem (Direntai) stream, Central Altai Mts., West Siberia, Russia. 15th July, 1988. Oleg Kosterin.