''Aldania raddei '' is a
butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprise ...
found in the East
Palearctic (Amur, Ussuri) that belongs to the
browns family.
Description from Seitz
raddei Brem. (55d) stands entirely apart in facies; a remarkable species, which must be placed in the present genus
'Neptis''as it agrees with the same in its morphological characters. Moore has erected for its reception a special genus, ''Aldania''. Ground-colour white, dusted with grey-brown at the margins, the base and along the veins, the veins themselves blackish, a row of dark lunules along the margin, being especially distinct on the underside. — Amurland: Bureja Mts., Ussuri.
[Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, ''Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter'', 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) ]
Biology
The larva feeds on ''
Ulmus propinqua
''Ulmus davidiana'' var. ''japonica'', the Japanese elm, is one of the larger and more graceful Asiatic elms, endemic to much of continental northeast Asia and Japan, where it grows in swamp forest on young alluvial soils, although much of this ...
''.
Etymology
The name honours
Gustav Radde
Gustav Ferdinand Richard Radde (27 November 1831 – 2 March 1903) was a German naturalist and Siberian explorer. Radde's warbler and several other species are named after him.
Biography
Radde was born in Danzig, the son of a schoolmaster. He ...
.
See also
*
List of butterflies of Russia
This is a list of butterflies of Russia. About 540 species are known from Russia. The butterflies (mostly diurnal) and moths (mostly nocturnal) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera.
The history of lepidopterology in Russia is conne ...
References
Limenitidinae
Butterflies described in 1861
Butterflies of Asia
Taxa named by Otto Vasilievich Bremer
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