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 boggy alpine meadow, 2400 m above sea level, in the valley of the rivulet descending from the southern principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range between Chikty and Akbul Rivulets, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 11th July 1998. O. Kosterin.