Oeneis magna is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Ludwig Carl Friedrich Graeser in 1888. It is found from the Altai Mountains to southern Siberia and the Russian Far East, Mongolia, northern China and Korea. The habitat consists of sparse woodlands and mountain tundras.
Adults are on wing from May to July.
The larvae feed on Carex species.
Subspecies
- Oeneis magna magna (southern Siberia, Transbaikalia, southern Yakutia, Amur, Sikhote-Alin, Shantar Island, north-eastern China: Manchuria, north-eastern Mongolia)
- Oeneis magna dubia <small>Elwes, 1899</small> (Altai, Sayan, western Tuva, western Mongolia)
- Oeneis magna eltgoli <small>Yakovlev, 2006</small>
- Oeneis magna kamtschatica <small>Kurentzov, 1970</small> (Kamchatka)
- Oeneis magna kurentzovi <small>Murayama, 1973</small> (eastern Tuva, eastern Sayan, northern Mongolia)
- Oeneis magna magadanica <small>Kurentzov, 1970</small> (Yakutia, Magadan, Chukot Peninsula)
- Oeneis magna pupavkini <small>Korshunov, 1995</small> (Polar Ural, north-western Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region)
- Oeneis magna uchangi <small>Im, 1988</small> (Korea)
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