Erebia pandrose Borkhausen, 1788.
For a log time I walked following this butterfly flying over a damp alpine meadow. It sat to rest only on stones, which were quite rare on this meadow. It exhibited such a preference notwithstanding this species inhabits mostly flat grassy habitats: alpine meadows and dwarf birch and Kobresia tundras, but not rocks and screes.
This species has a very disjunctive range being confined to high mountains. Range: the Alps, Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula, the mountains of S Siberia from Altai to Pribaikalye.
The subspecies orientalis Goltz, 1930, has been described for the mountains of S Siberia, but this name was preoccupated by Erebia epiphron orientalis. For this reason this name was replaced with ssp. yernikensis Korshunov, 1994, pro orientalis Goltz, 1930 nom. praeocc.
A mountain tundra on the Saylyg-Khem-Taiga mountain range being a part of the West Sayan mountain chain, at the Sayanskii pass of the road Abaza-Ak-Dovurak, 2300 m above sea level, 51o42' N 89o52' E, the border of Khakass and Tyva Republics, Siberia, Russia. 7th July 2000. O. Kosterin.