Lycaenidae

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what I defined as boydyuvali. Altai Krai, Charysh-Belaya Inya River district, 600-800 m, 7-8. V.

The second one looks more like eros boisduvalli.

This species is not found in May!

photographed in the southern part of the Kursk region on June 6

I totally agree.
eumedon - one.
And the number of births where it is placed is probably 5, no less.
And where it should be, many people have different opinions.

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what I defined as boydyuvali. Altai Krai, Charysh-Belaya Inya River district, 600-800 m, 7-8. V.
boiduvalii is not a species, it is only a lowland subspecies Polyommatus eros

1. Superflua only cook, I have Darvaza turned out recently described Churkin zabirovi.
2. Really not eurypilus very similar!!! where is it from?
3. Phoenicurusia margelanica
4. jurii probably, but in general it can be something new. Come on get ready for us and take all this stuff)

Let's talk in detail.

If you find in the above figures sufficient differences for breeding butterflies in different species (except for the already established branch of sassanides), I will reconsider the decision on synonymization. in the meantime, everything looks very sad for zabirova, etc.

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But this is just for reflection...

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In Eumaeini, males differ quite slightly in genitalia, as is known, so in this case, the shape of the valvae and the vinculum deria/zabirovi, if they are constants (and according to my material, it turns out that this is the case), can (and should!) consider it as a specific feature. I won't say anything about the rest in detail, because I haven't seen any material on these types.
I will only add that muksuria differs quite a lot from deria-zabirovi species in the shape of gnathos and the ratio of the lengths of individual parts of the genitals - so if you reduce it to sassanides/mirabilis, depending on your views on the rank of the latter taxon.

Judging by the amount of orange, this is clearly a female Sogdiana.

In young groups, in general, the male genitalia do not work well. Female genitalia are absent in the original description. The extent of their variability is unlikely to be studied - and even relatively ancient groups have it. Based on my experience (there are a lot of cooked superflues from the Northern Tien Shan) - a form of valva. and even more so the vinculum-the signs are very variable. You can take all the transitions from triangular to semicircular valva - you get 10 species from one population

Of course, take the same agrodietuses.
I proceed from my experience with Callophrys (several hundred cooked specimens - I can say that both the shape of valvae and gnathos are constant, and especially the ratio of parts of the genitals to each other and the total length of the genitals are constant) and for the two mentioned species.
By the way, we still need to figure out what "deria" is from the Pamirs.