Limenitis

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]

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):

Unnamed species group (South-East Asia):

Ungrouped species (Asia and Europe):

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Leech, 1891		China, N.Sichuan
	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.
	Poujade, 1885		Sichuan, China
	Oberthür, 1893		China
	Oberthür, 1903		Tibet, China
	Limenitis glorifica Fruhstorfer, 1909	Honshu white admiral	island of Honshu, in Japan
	Erschoff, 1874		Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan
	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.
	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[]

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[]

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

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