Euphydryas orientalis
Euphydryas orientalis is a small butterfly found in the Palearctic that belongs to the browns family.
Description
Difficult to distinguish from some aurinia forms. Tusov treats orientalis as a subspecies of Arinia.Seitz: "orientalis H.-Schaff. is apparently a combination of the two previous, from the Caucasus and laeta Christ ( differs from the preceding in the denser scaling and more conspicuous colours, the upperside having a rather chequered appearance in consequence of the strongly developed and several times curved black discal bands; from the Vilui Mts. in Siberia] the upperside being as bright and variegated as in laeta, while the underside is as pale, dull and uniform in colour as in pellucida. Asia Minor and Armenia to Kurdistan."