# Limenitis > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Limenitis > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Limenitis.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limenitis > Source revision: 1326590761 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Genus of brush-footed butterflies}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Limenitis reducta (9563868231).jpg | image_caption = Southern white admiral (''[L. reducta](/source/Limenitis_reducta)'') | taxon = Limenitis | authority = [Fabricius](/source/Johan_Christian_Fabricius), 1807 | subdivision_ranks = [Species](/source/Species) | subdivision = 25, see text }} '''''Limenitis''''' is a genus of [brush-footed butterflies](/source/Nymphalidae), commonly called the '''admirals'''. The sister butterflies (''[Adelpha](/source/Adelpha)'') and commander butterflies (''[Moduza](/source/Moduza)'') are sometimes included here. The name ''Limenitis'' is [Neo-Latin](/source/Neo-Latin) "of harbours", from [Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek) Λιμενιτις (from λιμήν, a harbour, haven).The [Century Dictionary](/source/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): {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- |120px || ''[Limenitis archippus](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Limenitis_lorquini)'' Boisduval, 1852 || Lorquin's admiral ||Across the Upper Sonoran to the Canadian Zone, east to western Montana and Idaho. |- |120px || ''[Limenitis weidemeyerii](/source/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): {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- | 120px || ''[Limenitis helmanni](/source/Limenitis_helmanni)'' Lederer, 1853 || || Eastern Kazakhstan, West Siberia, Transbaikalia, Amur, Ussuri, China, Korea |- | 120px|| ''[Limenitis doerriesi](/source/Limenitis_doerriesi)'' Staudinger, 1892 || || Amur (Khabarovsk), Ussuri, Northeast China, Korea |- | 120px|| ''[Limenitis homeyeri](/source/Limenitis_homeyeri)'' Tancré, 1881 || || East Palearctic |- |} Unnamed species group (South-East Asia): {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- | || ''[Limenitis rileyi](/source/Limenitis_rileyi)'' Tytler, 1940 ||Tiger-mimic Admiral || Arunachal Pradesh, India |- | || ''[Limenitis staudingeri](/source/Limenitis_staudingeri)'' Ribbe, 1898 || ||Seram, Indonesia |- |} Ungrouped species (Asia and Europe): {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- |120px || ''[Limenitis albomaculata](/source/Limenitis_albomaculata)'' Leech, 1891 || || China, N.Sichuan |- | || ''[Limenitis amphyssa](/source/Limenitis_amphyssa)'' Ménétriés, 1859 || || Amur, Ussuri, Korea, Central China |- |120px || ''[Limenitis camilla](/source/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](/source/Limenitis_ciocolatina)'' Poujade, 1885 || || Sichuan, China |- | || ''[Limenitis cleophas](/source/Limenitis_cleophas)'' Oberthür, 1893 || || China |- | || ''[Limenitis dubernardi](/source/Limenitis_dubernardi)'' Oberthür, 1903 || || Tibet, China |- |120px || ''[Limenitis glorifica](/source/Limenitis_glorifica)'' Fruhstorfer, 1909 || Honshu white admiral || island of Honshu, in Japan |- | || ''[Limenitis lepechini](/source/Limenitis_lepechini)'' Erschoff, 1874 || || Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan |- | || ''[Limenitis moltrechti](/source/Limenitis_moltrechti)'' Kardakov, 1928 || || Amur, Ussuri, Korea, Kyuojo, Kanhoku |- |120px || ''[Limenitis populi](/source/Limenitis_populi)'' (Linnaeus, 1758) || poplar admiral || widespread in continental Europe and many areas in Asia |- |120x120px|| ''[Limenitis reducta](/source/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](/source/Limenitis_sydyi)'' Lederer, 1853 || || Lower Bukhtarma R., E. Kazakhstan; West Altai in Russia; Eastern Transbaikalia, Amur, Ussuri, China, Korea. |- | || ''[Limenitis trivena](/source/Limenitis_trivena)'' Moore, 1864 || 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 {{Taxonbar|from=Q1064168}} {{Authority control}} Category:Limenitis Category:Nymphalidae genera Category:Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius Category:Limenitidinae {{Limenitidinae-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Limenitis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limenitis) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limenitis?action=history)). 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