Aldania Yunnana
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''Aldania yunnana'' 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 Palearctic where it is
endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...
to China that belongs to the browns family.


Description from Seitz

N. yunnana Oberth. (55a) is extremely similar to the previous forms, smaller, the position of the markings as in ''
Aldania thisbe ''Aldania thisbe'' is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Amur and Ussuri regions of Russia, central and north-eastern China and Korea. The habitat consists of open landscapes and forest canopy in broadleaved or mixed forest ...
'', their colour bright yellow-ochre, the median band of the hindwing comparatively broad, canary yellow beneath, as are also the spots of the forewing. Before the band of the hindwing a reddish brown area in which are situated several purplish spots; costal margin ochreous yellow at the base, the distal margin brownish, traversed by reddish brown curved lines. Tsekou.Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, ''Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter'', 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)


References

Limenitidinae Butterflies described in 1906 {{Limenitidinae-stub