Ochlodes sylvanus Esper, 1779 (= Ochlodes faunus (Turati, 1905)= Ochlodes venatum auct.; = Ochlodes similis auct.; =) - Large Skipper.
RANGE: Europe, the temperate Asia north to the southern limit of the middle taiga zone, the islands of Sakhalin, Kuriles, Japan.
ssp.: esperi Verity, 1934; range: West and Central Siberia.
Copulation, wings closed
An edge of a birch grove, the settlement Gornyi surroundings, Toguchin District, Novosibirsk Province, West Siberia, Russia. 12th June 1995. O. Kosterin.