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).The Century Dictionary by The Century Company. Available online at dictionary.com/index.html.
Species Listed alphabetically within groups:"Limenitis Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Species group Basilarchia (North America): Image Scientific name Common name Distribution Limenitis archippus (Cramer, ) Viceroy The Northwest Territories along the eastern edges of the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada mountains, southwards into central Mexico Limenitis arthemis (Drury, ) (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 Limenitis lorquin 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, 1940Tiger-mimic Admiral Arunachal Pradesh, India Limenitis staudingeri Ribbe, 1898 Seram, Indonesia
Ungrouped species (Asia and Europe): Image Scientific name Common name Distribution Limenitis albomaculata Leech, 1891 China, N.Sichuan Limenitis amphyssa 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. 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 (Linnaeus, 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), in Western Asia, in Syria, the Caucasus and Iran. 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
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