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Dunno. :) Melete/dulcinea dilemma always puzzled me. :) I'm not a pro in Far East and, bluntly speaking, now have no time to dip into these nuances. Later maybe. Clearly evident only this is not brassicae.
Irina, here are my thoughts: 1) in brassicae dark spot at the top of the front wing is clearly semicircular on the inside. See, for example, http://lepidoptera.ru/gallery/3784; 2) of the same color svrehu pretty rich black spots; Here we see (the edge of the wing sticking) gray; 3) a little different form the wings and, in general, the overall impression.:) Often somehow immediately clear that in ...
:) So, this year they also have. I wonder what part of Forest Park? I was in the area today Pyatihatok and "monsters" is not met. :)
Antennae from the underside are IMHO dark not light, though not focused properly. So I'm for lineola, maybe should be marked "uncertain". Female, by the way.
OK. By the way, an average eumedon is larger. Not sure where to move the photo. :) Anyway "uncertan". :)
Irina, maybe I missed something, but do you have underside pic of this very specimen? If it's pics #21797 and #21782, then no little word of eumedon. :) If these are photos of a different specimen, then this butterfly can be eumedon (and imho it really is, though can't be 100% sure):)) Eumedon and Aricia artaxerxes feed on Geranium, share the same biotopes and often fly side by side. Can't ...
Why, it's instead Nymphalis xanthomelas! ;) And I clearly see where it's lost, flew to Nizhny Novgorod at feet to that glammy "jacket" and further to the Butterfly House.... :)))
> But to quote the determinant LW T5 ch5, I probably is not worth it. And kind Celastrina oreas, is not there. He is there. But like Maslowskia. :) Inaccurate ladonides - the most obvious option; but Yuri said that did exactly the picture near ploskosemyannika - food plant oreas (and filipjevi), that would hint. :)
Yuri! Here the key point - the year of publication in 1964, and (I think) 1970. lepidopterist does not stand still. As I understand it, somewhere to 70 it was considered that the type of C. argiolus - it Holarctic species inhabiting entirely Eurasia and North America. Polee modern isledovanija shown that it is not. All in.American researchers have gradually "destroyed" this complex 5 or 6 ...
I'm familiar with Y. A. Chistyakov's publication, holding it in my hands now. Sadly there are several serious mistakes made on the identification by photo (blues and skippers), and these cases are way clearer than identification of Celastrina. The thing is that, as I see, the author isn't pro in butterflies but in some moth groups. Yury, so you decide for yourself whom you believe. :) Imho, one ...