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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Nymphalidae
Subfamilia: Limenitidinae
Tribus: Limenitidini
Genus: Limenitis
Species: L. albomaculata – L. amphyssa – L. archippusL. arthemis – L. camilla – L. ciocolatina – L. cleophas – L. doerriesi – L. dubernardi – L. glorifica – L. helmanni – L. homeyeri – L. lepechini – L. lorquini – L. moltrechti – L. populi – L. reducta – L. rileyi – L. staudingeri – L. sydyi – L. tamaii – L. trivena – L. weidemeyerii
Name

Limenitis Fabricius, 1807, Mag. f. Insektenk. (Illiger), 6: 281.

Type species: Papilio populi Linnaeus, 1758 Systema Naturae (Edn 10) 1: 476. by subsequent designation by, Dalman, 1816 K. svenska Vetensk. Akad. Handl. 1816 (1): 55.
Synonyms

Limfnitis Eversmann, 1844: 18.
Limonetes Billberg, 1820: 78.
Limonitis Dalman, 1816: 55, 56, tab. 1, 2.
Linimenitis Doubleday, 1848: 26.
Linimentis Doubleday, 1848: 26.
Nympha Krause, 1839: 86.

References

Hall, A., 1930: New forms of Nymphalidae (Rhopalocera) in the collection of the British Museum. The Entomologist 63: 156–160.
Hecq, J. 1990: Une sous-espece de Limenitis camilla L.. Lambillionea 90(1): 17–18. Reference page.
Koiwaya, S., 2007: A new species of Limenitis Fabricius, 1807 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) from Sichuan, China. Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 45: 4–7.
Monastyrskii, A.L. & A.L. Davyatkin, 2000: New taxa and new records of butterflies from Vietnam (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Atalanta 31(3/4): 471–492.
Sugiyama, H., 1994: New butterflies from Western China. Pallarge 3: 1–12.
Yoshino, K., 2001: New butterflies from China 6. Futao 38: 9–17.
Yoshino, K., 2003: New butterflies from China 8. Futao 43: 6–20.
Yoshino, K., 2016: A Revision of Limenitis helmanni and its related species from Central and South China Butterflies 73:8-18.

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 New Latin "of harbours", from Ancient Greek Λιμενιτις (from λιμήν, a harbour, haven).[1]

Species

Listed alphabetically within groups:[2]

Image Scientific name Common name Distribution
Limenitis archippus Cramer.jpg Limenitis archippus (Cramer, [1776]) viceroy the 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 purple North american ranging from New England and southern Great Lakes area all the way to various parts of Canada
Lorquinsadmiral2.jpg Limenitis lorquini Boisduval, 1852 Lorquin's admiral across the Upper Sonoran to the Canadian Zone, east to western Montana and Idaho.
Limenitis weidemeyerii dorsal.jpg 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, 1940 Tiger-mimic Admiral Arunachal Pradesh, India
Limenitis staudingeri Ribbe, 1898 Seram,Indonesia

Ungrouped species (Asia and Europe):

Image Scientific name Common name Distribution
Butterflies from <a href=China, Japan, and Corea (PL. XVI) BHL45490862.jpg" decoding="async" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Butterflies_from_China%2C_Japan%2C_and_Corea_%28PL._XVI%29_BHL45490862.jpg/180px-Butterflies_from_China%2C_Japan%2C_and_Corea_%28PL._XVI%29_BHL45490862.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Butterflies_from_China%2C_Japan%2C_and_Corea_%28PL._XVI%29_BHL45490862.jpg/240px-Butterflies_from_China%2C_Japan%2C_and_Corea_%28PL._XVI%29_BHL45490862.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2787" data-file-height="3656" height="157" width="120" /> Limenitis albomaculata Leech, 1891 China, N.Sichuan
Limenitis amphyssa Ménétriés, 1859 Amur, Ussuri, Korea, Central China
White admiral (Limenitis camilla).jpg Limenitis camilla (Linnaeus, 1764) (Eurasian) white admiral southern Britain and much of Europe; Eastern Asia, from Amur River extending as far east as Japan.
Butterflies from <a href=China, Japan, and Corea (PL. XVI) BHL45490862.jpg" decoding="async" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Butterflies_from_China%2C_Japan%2C_and_Corea_%28PL._XVI%29_BHL45490862.jpg/180px-Butterflies_from_China%2C_Japan%2C_and_Corea_%28PL._XVI%29_BHL45490862.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Butterflies_from_China%2C_Japan%2C_and_Corea_%28PL._XVI%29_BHL45490862.jpg/240px-Butterflies_from_China%2C_Japan%2C_and_Corea_%28PL._XVI%29_BHL45490862.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2787" data-file-height="3656" height="157" width="120" /> Limenitis ciocolatina Poujade, 1885 Sichuan, China
Limenitis cleophas Oberthür, 1893 China
Limenitis dubernardi Oberthür, 1903 Tibet, China
Limenitis glorifica1.jpg 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 L..jpg Limenitis populi (Linnaeu], 1758) poplar admiral widespread in continental Europe and many areas in Asia
Limenitis reducta (9563868231).jpg 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.
Butterflies from <a href=China, Japan, and Corea (19142198000).jpg" decoding="async" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Butterflies_from_China%2C_Japan%2C_and_Corea_%2819142198000%29.jpg/180px-Butterflies_from_China%2C_Japan%2C_and_Corea_%2819142198000%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Butterflies_from_China%2C_Japan%2C_and_Corea_%2819142198000%29.jpg/240px-Butterflies_from_China%2C_Japan%2C_and_Corea_%2819142198000%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="1908" height="179" width="120" /> 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

The Century Dictionary by The Century Company. Available online at dictionary.com/index.html[permanent dead link].

"Limenitis Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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)

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