Limenitis
Limenitis is a genus of brush-footed butterflies, commonly called the admirals. The sister butterflies (Adelpha) and commander butterflies (Moduza) are sometimes included here.
| Limenitis | |
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| Southern white admiral (L. reducta) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Limenitidini |
| Genus: | Limenitis Fabricius, 1807 |
| Species | |
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The name Limenitis is New Latin "of harbours", from Ancient Greek Λιμενιτις (from λιμήν, a harbour, haven).[1]
Species
Listed alphabetically within groups:[2]
Species group Basilarchia (North America):
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 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 american 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
_BHL45490862.jpg.webp) | Limenitis albomaculata Leech, 1891 | China, N.Sichuan | |
| Limenitis amphyssa Ménétriés, 1859 | Amur, Ussuri, Korea, Central China | ||
.jpg.webp) | 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 |
.jpg.webp) | 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. |
.jpg.webp) | 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
- The Century Dictionary by The Century Company. Available online at dictionary.com/index.html.
- "Limenitis Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Further reading
- 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
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Limenitis. |
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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
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