Limenitis

Limenitis
Southern white admiral (L. reducta)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Limenitidinae
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):

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Limenitis archippus (Cramer, [1776])viceroythe 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 purpleNorth american ranging from New England and southern Great Lakes area all the way to various parts of Canada
Limenitis lorquini Boisduval, 1852Lorquin's admiralacross the Upper Sonoran to the Canadian Zone, east to western Montana and Idaho.
Limenitis weidemeyerii Edwards, 1861Weidemeyer's admiralwestern 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):

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Limenitis doerriesi Staudinger, 1892Amur, Ussuri, Northeast China, Korea
Limenitis rileyi Tytler, 1940East Palearctic
Limenitis staudingeri Ribbe, 1898East Palearctic


Unnamed species group (South-East Asia):

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Limenitis rileyi Tytler, 1940Tiger-mimic AdmiralArunachal Pradesh, India
Limenitis staudingeri Ribbe, 1898Seram,Indonesia

Ungrouped (Asia):

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Limenitis albomaculata Leech, 1891China, N.Sichuan
Limenitis amphyssa Ménétriés, 1859Amur, Korea, Central China
Limenitis calidosa Moore, 1858Ceylon
Limenitis camilla (Linnaeus, 1764)(Eurasian) white admiralsouthern Britain and much of Europe and Asia, extending as far east as Japan.
Limenitis ciocolatina Poujade, 1885Sichuan, China
Limenitis cleophas Oberthür, 1893China
Limenitis dubernardi Oberthür, 1903Tibet, China
Limenitis elwesi Oberthür, 1884N.W.Yunnan, China
Limenitis glorifica Fruhstorfer, 1909Honshu white admiralisland of Honshu, in Japan
Limenitis imitata (Butler, 1883)
Limenitis lepechini Erschoff, 1874Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Limenitis moltrechti Kardakov, 1928Korea, Kyuojo, Kanhoku
Limenitis populi (Linnaeu], 1758)poplar admiralwidespread in continental Europe and many areas in Asia
Limenitis reducta Staudinger, 1901southern white admiralcentral 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, 1853Lower Bukhtarma R., E. Kazakhstan
Limenitis trivena Moore, 1864Indian white admiraltropical and subtropical Asia.

References

  1. ↑ The Century Dictionary by The Century Company. Available online at dictionary.com/index.html.
  2. ↑ "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)


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