Limenitis
{{Short description|Genus of brush-footed butterflies}}
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| image = Limenitis reducta01.jpg
| image_caption = Southern white admiral (L. reducta)
| taxon = Limenitis
| authority = Fabricius, 1807
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 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 Neo-Latin "of harbours", from Ancient Greek Λιμενιτις (from λιμήν, a harbour, haven).The Century Dictionary by The Century Company. Available online at [http://www.leoyan.com/century dictionary.com/index.html]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}.
Species
Listed alphabetically within groups:[http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/limenitidinae/limenitis/ "Limenitis Fabricius, 1807"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Species group Basilarchia (North America):
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| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 120px | Limenitis archippus (Cramer, [1776]) | Viceroy | The Northwest Territories along the eastern edges of the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada mountains, southwards into central Mexico |
| 120px | 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 |
| 120px | Limenitis lorquini Boisduval, 1852 | Lorquin's admiral | Across the Upper Sonoran to the Canadian Zone, east to western Montana and Idaho. |
| 120px | 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):
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| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 120px | Limenitis helmanni Lederer, 1853 | Eastern Kazakhstan, West Siberia, Transbaikalia, Amur, Ussuri, China, Korea | |
| 120px | Limenitis doerriesi Staudinger, 1892 | Amur (Khabarovsk), Ussuri, Northeast China, Korea | |
| 120px | Limenitis homeyeri Tancré, 1881 | East Palearctic |
Unnamed species group (South-East Asia):
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| 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):
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| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 120px | Limenitis albomaculata Leech, 1891 | China, N.Sichuan | |
| Limenitis amphyssa Ménétriés, 1859 | Amur, Ussuri, Korea, Central China | ||
| 120px | Limenitis camilla (Linnaeus, 1764) | (Eurasian) white admiral | southern Britain and much of Europe; Eastern Asia, from Amur River extending as far east as Japan. |
| 120px | Limenitis ciocolatina Poujade, 1885 | Sichuan, China | |
| Limenitis cleophas Oberthür, 1893 | China | ||
| Limenitis dubernardi Oberthür, 1903 | Tibet, China | ||
| 120px | 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 | ||
| 120px | Limenitis populi (Linnaeus, 1758) | poplar admiral | widespread in continental Europe and many areas in Asia |
| 120px | 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. |
| 120px | 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
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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
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{{Wikispecies}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060319050624/http://www.nearctica.com/butter/bylist/lnymph2.htm Checklist of Nearctic Nymphalidae]
- [http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/ Butterflies and Moths of North America]
- [http://www.butterfliesofamerica.com/ Butterflies of America]
- [http://eol.org/pages/19276/media Images representing Limenitis] at EOL
- [http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=3606 Images representing Limenitis] at Bold
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Category:Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius
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