Limenitis helmanni

Limenitis helmanni is a butterfly found in the East Palearctic that belongs to the browns family.

Limenitis helmanni
Limenitis helmanni in Seitz 57b male and 57b underside of female, erroneously named doerriesi U.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Limenitis
Species:	L. helmanni
Binomial name
Limenitis helmanni Lederer, 1853 [1]

Subspecies

• Limenitis helmanni helmanni Zailiisky Altatau Mountains, Altai
• Limenitis helmanni pryeri (Moore, 1877) Chekiang
• Limenitis helmanni duplicata Staudinger, 1892 Amur, Ussuri, Northeast China, Korea
• Limenitis helmanni chosensis Matsumura, 1929 Korea
• Limenitis helmanni sichuanensis (Sugiyama, 1994) China (Shaanxi, Jiangxi)
• Limenitis helmanni meicunensis Yoshino, 2016 China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi)
• Limenitis helmanni misuji Sugiyama, 1994 Sichuan
• Limenitis helmanni wenpingae Huang, 2003 Yunnan

Description from Seitz

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

L. helmanni Led. (57b) has the ground-colour blackish brown, the pattern being similar to that of the preceding species [Limenitis camilla; the cell of the forewing, however, bears a whitish basal streak followed distally by a white acutely triangular spot; the while spots of the central area are small and isolated, and the band of the hindwing, which is directed towards the centre of the hindmargin, is composed of separated spots. On the hindwing above there are sometimes small, whitish, elongate, submarginal spots. Central Asia: Altai, eastern districts of Amurland; West and Central China; Corea. — pryeri Moore is on an average larger, the white markings are widened, both wings have distinct while sumarginal spots, the underside is more strongly marked with more prominent white spots on the hindwing. North-East China (Ning-po), Ussuri, Amurland, Corea, Japan. — In duplicata Stgr. male 61d, 57b underside of female, erroneously named doerriesi U. on plate) the increase in the size of the white markings reaches its maximum; the band of the hindwing is continuous and of double or threefold width. Amurland).^[2]

Biology

The larva feeds on Lonicera altaica, Lonicera tatarica, Lonicera maackii

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  61 d ssp. duplicata Stgr. male

See also

• List of butterflies of Russia

References

1. Lederer, 1853 Lepidopterologisches aus Sibirien Verh. zool.-bot. Ver. Wien 3  : 351-386, pl. 1-7
2. Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.