''Aldania raddei '' is a

butterfly Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...

found in the East

Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. Th ...

(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''.

Etymology

The name honours

Gustav Radde Gustav Ferdinand Richard Radde (27 November 1831 – 16 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. H ...

References

Limenitidinae Butterflies described in 1861 Butterflies of Asia Taxa named by Otto Vasilievich Bremer {{Limenitidinae-stub

Description from Seitz

Biology

Etymology

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