LEPIDOPTERA

• N Y M P H A L I D A E Swainson, 1827

  • ALDANIA Moore, 1869

    
    

    • Aldania thisbe Menetries, 1859

Aldania thisbe Menetries, 1859

•TYPE locality. «Des monts Boureia, ...et pres de 1'0ussouri» [Bureinskie Mts., Amur region; Ussuri region, Russia].

•SYNONYM: ussuriensis Kurentzov, 1970.

•RANGE. Amur and Ussuri regions; central and NE. China, Korea.

•HABITATS AND BIOLOGY. Open landscapes and forest canopy in broadleaved or mixed forests with admixture of oak. Flight period: June to July. Host plant in the Ussuri region (Graeser, 1888; Dantchenko & Nikolaevsky, in press): Quercus mongolica..

•SIMILAR SPECIES. Aldania deliquata: two or three blue touches at distal end of subbasal blue stroke on UNH. A. ilos: without blue touches at distal end of subbasal blue stroke on UNH.

Photo and text: Guide to the BUTTERFLIES OF RUSSIA and adjacent territories Volume 2. PENSOFT, Sofia - Moscow. 2000