Species: Limenitis archippus

Animalia - Mandibulata - Insecta - Lepidoptera - Nymphalidae - Limenitis - A widespread species with some geographical and much individual variation. Two subspecies are almost universally recognized: FLORIDENSIS (mainly Florida) and OBSOLETA (southwestern USA and adjacent Mexico). Subspecies LAHONTANI (Nevada) is more or less transitional to OBSOLETA. Subspecies IDAHO needs to be reevaluated. It is close to typical ARCHIPPUS but probably shows some tendancy towards LAHONTANI. Based on the illustrations in its description and examination of additional published illustrations and specimens of eastern viceroys, dorsally IDAHO seems to fall mostly within the range of variation of northern transcontinental viceroys but the ventral tan areas are paler than at least eastern populations (D. Schweitzer).