Photo #33853: Argynnis paphia

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Base gallery. Upperside. Pinned specimen.

Photo, and identified by: Vasiliy Feoktistov. Image without retouching at the website

Date and time, location shooting/catching: 2012-07-22 00:00:00, Russia, Moscow reg., near Zheleznodorozhny city. leg. Feoktistov V.I.

Photographer's comment: Gray-green form: Argynnis paphia f. valesina Esper, 1793 is characteristic in some cases only of female wood pearlescent. Classic females of the species: http://lepidoptera.ru/gallery/33855 they have a reddish-yellow color. Males are not subject to variability at all: they're always red: http://lepidoptera.ru/gallery/33857 In my area, the gray form dominates, but the classic (red) females are very rare.

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