Butterflies from Northern Tien Shan, near Almaty, Kazakhstan

[askar]

Hello

Could you help to recognize butterflies if possible, please

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[yorky]

Second picture is the black veined moth Siona lineata

[askar]

thank you yorky!

[jmg]

First picture : Boloria generator generator Staudinger, 1886.

[jmg]

Last picture : Plebeius idas naruena Courvoisier, 1913 ??

See :

[jmg]

Photo 4 : an underside view would be useful !

By the way, we (a group of lepidopterists from the Association des Lepidopteristes de France) had planned to spend the month of July in Kyrgyzia. Covid-19 destroyed this well-organized project (plane tickets, itinerary, collecting authorizations, etc.) . Will it be for July 2021?





 

[askar]

thank you very much jmg! this year is realy year of covid. i am birding guide and this year i don't have job. hope next year we will back to our usual life. hope you will visit Kyrgyzstan.



regarding butterfly, of course I understans that imposible to recognize some of butterflies in photos, but sometimes any guess is helpfull.

i found in internet one photo with butterfly which looks very similar to one in your photo

webusers.imj-prg.fr/~jean.michel/photos/kyrgyz/kyrgyzstan/hegemone3.html

is Boloria generator so close to Clossiana Hegemone?

[jmg]

After checking in Tshikolovets' book The Butterflies of Kyrgyzstan, I confirm the identification of your specimen as Boloria generator. Clossiana hegemone is very similar to him, but differs nevertheless in the triangles of the edge of the wings. The Clossiana hegemone (which you give us the link - Chon Ashuu Pass) is a female, photographed by a friend of mine who participated with me in this trip to Kyrgyzstan in 2006. I was with him this year 2020 in June and July in the south from France. See these internet pages:

www.lepidofrance.com/papilionidae-du-luberon-a-la-montagne-de-lure-juin-2020/

webusers.imj-prg.fr/~jean.michel/photos/papillons/villevieille.html

You can see our group in Kyrgyzstan on :
webusers.imj-prg.fr/~jean.michel/photos/kyrgyz/kyrgyzstan/pict0295.html

In 2009, we went to the Altaï Mountains, not so far from Kazakhstan ! And we want to go back there soon.

www.lepidofrance.com/dans-les-montagnes-de-laltai/

 

[jmg]

According me, about the butterflies of your area, the best book is :

Sergej Toropov & Alexander Zhdanko, The Butterflies of Dzhungar, Tien Shan, Alai and Eastern Pamirs, 2 volumes, Bishkek, 2006 (In russian and english). Очень хорошая книга с красивыми изображениями бабочек на природе.



Other very useful and beautiful book :

Pavel Gorbunov & Oleg Kosterin, The Butterflies of North Asia (Asian part of Russia) in Nature, 2 volumes, Rodina & Fodio, Moscow - Gallery Fund, Cheliabinsk, 2003 (in english).

[askar]

thank you. diogen!