#3001 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Southern White Admiral
🇳🇱 Blauwe ijsvogelvlinder ·Limenitis reducta
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in Europe, not in NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Luca Boscain · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Pascal Dubois · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Dean Morley · CC BY-ND 4.0
- 5. © Pavel Vojtek · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Drepanostoma · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © Drepanostoma · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © Pasquale Buonpane · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Dean Morley · CC BY-ND 4.0
what is it?
Limenitis reducta , the southern white admiral , is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 12,607 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Otto Staudinger in 1901 (125 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Southern White Admiral
- Nederlands
- Blauwe ijsvogelvlinder
- scientific name
- Limenitis reducta
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Nymphalidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 11,368
- sightings worldwide
- 12,607
- GBIF records in NL
- 214
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1901 by Otto Staudinger
relatives· Nymphalidae
#2385 📷 8Red Admiral
🇳🇱 Atalanta
Vanessa atalanta
LC 👀 4.7k in NL
#2386 📷 9Speckled Wood
🇳🇱 Bont zandoogje
Pararge aegeria
👀 4.3k in NL
#2387 📷 10European Peacock Butterfly
🇳🇱 Dagpauwoog
Aglais io
👀 3.8k in NL
#2392 📷 10European Comma
🇳🇱 Gehakkelde Aurelia
Polygonia c-album
👀 2k in NL
#2395 📷 10Meadow Brown
🇳🇱 Bruin zandoogje
Maniola jurtina
👀 1.7k in NL
#2397 📷 9Painted Lady
🇳🇱 Distelvlinder
Vanessa cardui
LC 👀 1.6k in NL
#2399 📷 9Map
🇳🇱 Landkaartje
Araschnia levana
👀 1.4k in NL
#2402 📷 9Small Tortoiseshell
🇳🇱 Kleine vos
Aglais urticae
👀 1.2k in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 155030, Wikidata Q541201, GBIF 8001799, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.