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.

The name Limenitis is Neo-Latin "of harbours", from Ancient Greek Λιμενιτις (from λιμήν, a harbour, haven).

Species

Listed alphabetically within groups:

Species group Basilarchia (North America):

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
File:Limenitis archippus Cramer.jpg	Limenitis archippus (Cramer, [1776])	Viceroy	The Northwest Territories along the eastern edges of the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada mountains, southwards into central Mexico
File:White Admiral, dorsal.jpg	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
File:Lorquinsadmiral2.jpg	Limenitis lorquini Boisduval, 1852	Lorquin's admiral	Across the Upper Sonoran to the Canadian Zone, east to western Montana and Idaho.
File:Limenitis weidemeyerii dorsal.jpg	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
File:Limenitis helmanni 257044774.jpg	Limenitis helmanni Lederer, 1853		Eastern Kazakhstan, West Siberia, Transbaikalia, Amur, Ussuri, China, Korea
File:Limenitis doerriesi 98086622.jpg	Limenitis doerriesi Staudinger, 1892		Amur (Khabarovsk), Ussuri, Northeast China, Korea
File:Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corea (19142198000) Limenitis homeyeri.jpg	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
File:Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corea (PL. XVI) BHL45490862.jpg	Limenitis albomaculata Leech, 1891		China, N.Sichuan
	Limenitis amphyssa Ménétriés, 1859		Amur, Ussuri, Korea, Central China
File:White admiral (Limenitis camilla).jpg	Limenitis camilla (Linnaeus, 1764)	(Eurasian) white admiral	southern Britain and much of Europe; Eastern Asia, from Amur River extending as far east as Japan.
File:Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corea (PL. XVI) BHL45490862.jpg	Limenitis ciocolatina Poujade, 1885		Sichuan, China
	Limenitis cleophas Oberthür, 1893		China
	Limenitis dubernardi Oberthür, 1903		Tibet, China
File:Limenitis glorifica1.jpg	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
File:Limenitis populi L..jpg	Limenitis populi (Linnaeus, 1758)	poplar admiral	widespread in continental Europe and many areas in Asia
File:Limenitis reducta (9563868231).jpg	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.
File:Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corea (19142198000).jpg	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.

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

• 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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