{{Short description|Genus of brush-footed butterflies}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Limenitis reducta (9563868231).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).<ref>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 }}.</ref>
==Species== Listed alphabetically within groups:<ref>[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''</ref>
Species group '''''Basilarchia''''' (North America): {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- |120px || ''Limenitis archippus'' <small>(Cramer, [1776])</small> || Viceroy || The Northwest Territories along the eastern edges of the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada mountains, southwards into central Mexico |- |120px || ''Limenitis arthemis'' <small>(Drury, [1773])</small> || (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'' <small>Boisduval, 1852</small> || Lorquin's admiral ||Across the Upper Sonoran to the Canadian Zone, east to western Montana and Idaho. |- |120px || ''Limenitis weidemeyerii'' <small>Edwards, 1861</small> || 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): {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- | 120px || ''Limenitis helmanni'' <small>Lederer, 1853</small> || || Eastern Kazakhstan, West Siberia, Transbaikalia, Amur, Ussuri, China, Korea |- | 120px|| ''Limenitis doerriesi'' <small>Staudinger, 1892</small> || || Amur (Khabarovsk), Ussuri, Northeast China, Korea |- | 120px|| ''Limenitis homeyeri'' <small>Tancré, 1881</small> || || East Palearctic |- |}
Unnamed species group (South-East Asia): {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- | || ''Limenitis rileyi'' <small>Tytler, 1940</small> ||Tiger-mimic Admiral || Arunachal Pradesh, India |- | || ''Limenitis staudingeri'' <small>Ribbe, 1898</small> || ||Seram, Indonesia |- |}
Ungrouped species (Asia and Europe): {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- |120px || ''Limenitis albomaculata'' <small>Leech, 1891</small> || || China, N.Sichuan |- | || ''Limenitis amphyssa'' <small>Ménétriés, 1859</small> || || Amur, Ussuri, Korea, Central China |- |120px || ''Limenitis camilla'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1764)</small> || (Eurasian) white admiral || southern Britain and much of Europe; Eastern Asia, from Amur River extending as far east as Japan. |- |120px || ''Limenitis ciocolatina'' <small>Poujade, 1885</small> || || Sichuan, China |- | || ''Limenitis cleophas'' <small>Oberthür, 1893</small> || || China |- | || ''Limenitis dubernardi'' <small>Oberthür, 1903</small> || || Tibet, China |- |120px || ''Limenitis glorifica'' <small>Fruhstorfer, 1909</small> || Honshu white admiral || island of Honshu, in Japan |- | || ''Limenitis lepechini'' <small>Erschoff, 1874</small> || || Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan |- | || ''Limenitis moltrechti'' <small>Kardakov, 1928</small> || || Amur, Ussuri, Korea, Kyuojo, Kanhoku |- |120px || ''Limenitis populi'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> || poplar admiral || widespread in continental Europe and many areas in Asia |- |120x120px|| ''Limenitis reducta'' <small>Staudinger, 1901</small> || 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'' <small>Lederer, 1853</small> || || Lower Bukhtarma R., E. Kazakhstan; West Altai in Russia; Eastern Transbaikalia, Amur, Ussuri, China, Korea. |- | || ''Limenitis trivena'' <small>Moore, 1864</small> || Indian white admiral || tropical and subtropical Asia. |- |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==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== {{Commons}} {{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:Limenitis Category:Nymphalidae genera Category:Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius Category:Limenitidinae
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