Erebia stubbendorffi Ménétriés, 1846.
Range: the Altai and Sayan Mts., the mountains of Tuva and NW Mongolia.
Used to be regarded as a subspecies of Erebia theano (Tausher, 1806)
but is bona specie with a narrower ecological standard (short-herb
subalpine meadows) where is sympatric and syntopic with E. theano.
ssp: stubbendorffii Ménétriés, 1846, range: Altai (except for SE), the Sayans.
A male on Alchimilla
An alpine meadow patch neighbouring with the most elevated larch wood outposts in
the Kamdyt valley, a Tekelyu River right tributary which in turn is an Akkem River right
tributary, the Katunskii Range northern principal slope, Central [Russian} Altai Mts.,
Ust'-Koksa District, Altai Rapublic, West SIberia, Russia. 3th July 2007. O. Kosterin.