Michal Szkudlarek wrote:do you base this generalization on only one specimen?
No. More than one have been photographed. But generalization was actually not even my intention. What I meant, and should have said, was: "In Finland there are female alpestris that look like this".
Of course there may be variation, but I would like to stick to the point: is it possible that the newt in the first pictures is an alpestris?