Limenitis

Last updated

Limenitis
Limenitis reducta (9563868231).jpg
Southern white admiral ( L. reducta )
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
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.

Contents

The name Limenitis is Neo-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.jpg Limenitis archippus (Cramer, [1776])ViceroyThe Northwest Territories along the eastern edges of the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada mountains, southwards into central Mexico
White Admiral, dorsal.jpg Limenitis arthemis (Drury, [1773])(American) white admiral or red-spotted purpleNorth America, ranging from New England and southern Great Lakes area all the way to various parts of Canada
Lorquinsadmiral2.jpg Limenitis lorquini Boisduval, 1852Lorquin's admiralAcross the Upper Sonoran to the Canadian Zone, east to western Montana and Idaho.
Limenitis weidemeyerii dorsal.jpg 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 helmanni 257044774.jpg Limenitis helmanni Lederer, 1853Eastern Kazakhstan, West Siberia, Transbaikalia, Amur, Ussuri, China, Korea
Limenitis doerriesi 98086622.jpg Limenitis doerriesi Staudinger, 1892Amur (Khabarovsk), Ussuri, Northeast China, Korea
Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corea (19142198000) Limenitis homeyeri.jpg Limenitis homeyeri Tancré, 1881East Palearctic

Unnamed species group (South-East Asia):

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

Ungrouped species (Asia and Europe):

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corea (PL. XVI) BHL45490862.jpg Limenitis albomaculata Leech, 1891China, N.Sichuan
Limenitis amphyssa Ménétriés, 1859Amur, Ussuri, Korea, Central China
White admiral (Limenitis camilla).jpg Limenitis camilla (Linnaeus, 1764)(Eurasian) white admiralsouthern Britain and much of Europe; Eastern Asia, from Amur River extending as far east as Japan.
Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corea (PL. XVI) BHL45490862.jpg Limenitis ciocolatina Poujade, 1885Sichuan, China
Limenitis cleophas Oberthür, 1893China
Limenitis dubernardi Oberthür, 1903Tibet, China
Limenitis glorifica1.jpg Limenitis glorifica Fruhstorfer, 1909Honshu white admiralisland of Honshu, in Japan
Limenitis lepechini Erschoff, 1874Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan
Limenitis moltrechti Kardakov, 1928Amur, Ussuri, Korea, Kyuojo, Kanhoku
Limenitis populi L..jpg Limenitis populi (Linnaeus, 1758)poplar admiralwidespread in continental Europe and many areas in Asia
Nymphalidae - Limenitis reducta-002.JPG 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.
Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corea (19142198000).jpg Limenitis sydyi Lederer, 1853Lower Bukhtarma R., E. Kazakhstan; West Altai in Russia; Eastern Transbaikalia, Amur, Ussuri, China, Korea.
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 [ permanent dead link ].
  2. "Limenitis Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

Further reading