Limenitis

Genus of brush-footed butterflies

Limenitis

Southern white admiral (L. reducta)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Nymphalidae
Tribe:  | Limenitidini
Genus:  | Limenitis
Fabricius, 1807
Species

25, see text

Limenitis is a genus of brush-footed butterflies, commonly called the admirals. The sister butterflies (Adelpha) and commander butterflies (Moduza) are sometimes included here.

The name Limenitis is New Latin "of harbours", from Ancient Greek Λιμενιτις (from λιμήν, a harbour, haven).[1]

## Contents

* 1 Species
* 2 References
* 3 Further reading
* 4 External links

## Species[edit]

Listed alphabetically within groups:[2]

Species group Basilarchia (North America):

Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution

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| Limenitis archippus (Cramer, [1776]) | Viceroy | The Northwest Territories along the eastern edges of the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada mountains, southwards into central Mexico
| Limenitis arthemis (Drury, [1773]) | (American) white admiral or red-spotted purple | North America, ranging from New England and southern Great Lakes area all the way to various parts of Canada
| Limenitis lorquini Boisduval, 1852 | Lorquin's admiral | Across the Upper Sonoran to the Canadian Zone, east to western Montana and Idaho.
| Limenitis weidemeyerii Edwards, 1861 | Weidemeyer's admiral | Western Canada, the northern Great Plains (an outlying population), and the Western United States, from the Rocky Mountains westward to the Sierra Nevada and California.

Species group helmanni (eastern Asia):

Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution

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| Limenitis helmanni Lederer, 1853 |  | Eastern Kazakhstan, West Siberia, Transbaikalia, Amur, Ussuri, China, Korea
| Limenitis doerriesi Staudinger, 1892 |  | Amur (Khabarovsk), Ussuri, Northeast China, Korea
| Limenitis homeyeri Tancré, 1881 |  | East Palearctic

Unnamed species group (South-East Asia):

Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution

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| Limenitis rileyi Tytler, 1940 | Tiger-mimic Admiral | Arunachal Pradesh, India
| Limenitis staudingeri Ribbe, 1898 |  | Seram,Indonesia

Ungrouped species (Asia and Europe):

Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution

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| Limenitis albomaculata Leech, 1891 |  | China, N.Sichuan
| Limenitis amphyssa Ménétriés, 1859 |  | Amur, Ussuri, Korea, Central China
| Limenitis camilla (Linnaeus, 1764) | (Eurasian) white admiral | southern Britain and much of Europe; Eastern Asia, from Amur River extending as far east as Japan.
| Limenitis ciocolatina Poujade, 1885 |  | Sichuan, China
| Limenitis cleophas Oberthür, 1893 |  | China
| Limenitis dubernardi Oberthür, 1903 |  | Tibet, China
| Limenitis glorifica Fruhstorfer, 1909 | Honshu white admiral | island of Honshu, in Japan
| Limenitis lepechini Erschoff, 1874 |  | Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan
| Limenitis moltrechti Kardakov, 1928 |  | Amur, Ussuri, Korea, Kyuojo, Kanhoku
| Limenitis populi (Linnaeu], 1758) | poplar admiral | widespread in continental Europe and many areas in Asia
| Limenitis reducta Staudinger, 1901 | southern white admiral | central and southern Europe (northern Spain, southern and eastern France, Italy, the Balkans, and the Alps),[16] in Western Asia, in Syria, the Caucasus and Iran.
| Limenitis sydyi Lederer, 1853 |  | Lower Bukhtarma R., E. Kazakhstan; West Altai in Russia; Eastern Transbaikalia, Amur, Ussuri, China, Korea.
| Limenitis trivena Moore, 1864 | Indian white admiral | tropical and subtropical Asia.

## References[edit]

1. ^ The Century Dictionary by The Century Company. Available online at dictionary.com/index.html[permanent dead link].
2. ^ "Limenitis Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

## Further reading[edit]

* Glassberg, Jeffrey Butterflies through Binoculars: The West (2001)
* Guppy, Crispin S. and Shepard, Jon H. Butterflies of British Columbia (2001)
* James, David G. and Nunnallee, David Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies (2011)
* Pelham, Jonathan Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada (2008)
* Pyle, Robert Michael The Butterflies of Cascadia (2002)

## External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Limenitis.

Wikispecies has information related to Limenitis.

* Checklist of Nearctic Nymphalidae
* Butterflies and Moths of North America
* Butterflies of America
* Images representing Limenitis at EOL
* Images representing Limenitis at Bold

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q1064168
* Wikispecies: Limenitis
* BioLib: 51621
* BOLD: 3606
* BugGuide: 358
* ButMoth: 16103.0
* EoL: 19276
* EPPO: 1LIMEG
* Fauna Europaea: 441646
* Fauna Europaea (new): f19d8010-c166-4557-b773-8a73568f907c
* Fossilworks: 245016
* GBIF: 5131972
* iNaturalist: 50881
* ITIS: 188602
* LepIndex: 160309
* NBN: NHMSYS0000516440
* NCBI: 124410

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