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Limenitis populi / Poplar Admiral
Admirali i plepit
Nymphalidae - Limenitidinae
Limenitis populi (Linnaeus, 1758). TL: S. Finland.
 
1a. Limenitis populi, distribution map.  Historical data ;  Additional data from the 2018 update ;  New observations since the 2018 update.
1b. Limenitis populi. ♂ upper- and underside (© Richard Lewington)
Note
Pelopidas thrax was regularly recorded since the beginning of this century from the southern Dodecanese islands (Cuvelier 2009) and the North-Aegean island Samos. P. thrax was also discovered in the beginning of the century in the North-Aegean island of Chios (first record in 2002) and recorded and confirmed from Lesbos (Cuvelier 2014).
Description
♂♂
Large butterfly. Fw: 26-30 mm.
Ups: black gc with white postdiscal markings.
Upf: faint or absent white cell-spot, small white apical spots, irregular white postdiscal band, dark submarginal spots.
Uph: regular white postdiscal band, dark submarginal spots, sometimes reddish submarginal markings at anal angle.
Uns: orange-brown gc, grey-blue basal suffusion, similar pattern of markings but larger.
Unh: double series of small black postdiscal spots.
♀♀
Similar size.
Ups and uns: slightly larger markings.
Similar species
Life cycle
Adults: single generation from June to early August, a partial second generation is possible in September.
Egg: short stage.
Caterpillar: overwintering as L3 larva.
Pupa: short stage.
Habitat
Limenitis camilla inhabits all kinds of open, moist forests from 200 up to 1500 m a.s.l.
Spatial requirement modest, population density can be high, nomadic after a population explosion.
Foodplants
Caterpillars feed mainly on Lonicera periclymenum, also mentioned are L. caprifolium, L. nigra, L. xylosteum and Symphoricarpos albus.
Butterflies feed on flowers, often Rubus.
Distribution
Albania: never recorded.
Balkan: AL - BG - BIH - GR - HR - NMK - MNE - RKS - RO - SLO - SRB
Europe: IB - IT - ALP - BAL - NWE - UK - SCA* - EEU
Asia Minor*, Transcaucasia, Caucasus and further east.
Conservation status
Limenitis camilla is not endangered, at the southern limit of its distribution range in the Balkan peninsula.
Albanian Red List: VU.
IUCN Red List, category at the Mediterranean level: LC.
Useful links
Bink 2015
Pyrgus.de
Lepiforum
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bluish-black gc.
whitish-pale blue sm spots.
single row of dark postdiscal spots.
vestigial white stripe in cell.
oblique broad, white pd spots.
single oblique white discal band.