Limenitis weidemeyerii

Limenitis weidemeyerii

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Limenitis
Species: L. weidemeyerii
Binomial name
Limenitis weidemeyerii
(W.H. Edwards, 1861)
Synonyms
  • Basilarchia weidechippus

The Weidemeyer's Admiral (Limenitis weidemeyerii) is a butterfly from the Nymphalinae subfamily, in western North America.

Distribution

Limenitis weidemeyerii is found in 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. It is named after John William Weidemeyer, a 19th-century entomologist who discovered it in its former eastern range extension into the Adirondack mountains.

Description

The Weidemeyer's Admiral's wings are black and white on the dorsal side, with rows of white spots across the wings. On the ventral side, the black is replaced by brown with grey markings along the margins of the hindwing.

Similar species

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