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The book series “The Butterflies of Palearctic Asia” by Vadim Tshikolovets (e.g. Tshikolovets 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005a, 2005b; Tshikolovets et al. 2009; Tshikolovets & Nekrutenko 2012) will serve for testing purposes here.
A selection of single images, also as high resolution .tif files, can be obtained from our course server here.
Below you can download a couple of test images compressed in one zip-file for each book. These images are saved in .png format for initial usage in the Digitizer app. Note that you have to unzip the zip-files before you can start working with the contained png-images.
The Butterflies of Turkmenistan
You can download a selection of downsampled pages here.
The Butterflies of Altai, Sayans and Tuva
You can download a selection of downsampled pages here.
The Butterflies of Russian Far East, Sakhalin, and Kuril Islands
You can download a selection of downsampled pages here.
The Butterflies of Mongolia
You can download a selection of downsampled pages here.
The Butterflies of Transbaikal Siberia
You can download a selection of downsampled pages here.
The Butterflies of Tajikistan
You can download a selection of downsampled pages here.
The Butterflies of Kazakhstan
You can download a selection of downsampled pages here.
The Butterflies of Kyrgyzstan
You can download a selection of downsampled pages here.
The Butterflies of Uzbekistan
You can download a selection of downsampled pages here.
The Butterflies of Caucasus and Transcaucasia
You can download a selection of downsampled pages here.
The Butterflies of Iran and Iraq
You can download a selection of downsampled pages here.
The Butterflies of Ladak
You can download a selection of downsampled pages here.
The Butterflies of Pakistan
You can download a selection of downsampled pages here.
The Butterflies of Afghanistan
You can download a selection of downsampled pages here.
Example page
Image linked from “V. Tshikolovets, I. Pliushch, O. Pak and Y. Skrylnik (2018) The Butterflies of Afghanistan”.