Limenitis lorquini

Limenitis lorquini is resident to the western United States and southwestern Canada (Scott 1986). Habitats are upper Sonoran to Canadian zone mountain canyons and deciduous woods. Host plants are trees and shrubs and include many species from families Saliaceae, Rosaceae and Rhamnaceae. Eggs are laid on the host plant singly. Individuals overwinter as half-grown larvae in a hibernaculum. There are several flights each year from April1-Oct 31 in the southern part of their range, and one flight between June 1-Aug.15 in the north. (Scott 1986).

Global Range: (>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)) Central British Columbia, southwest Alberta south to Cali- fornia, northeastern Nevada, southeastern Idaho, and west- ern Colorado. Also occurs in Baja California, Mexico.

occurs (regularly, as a native taxon) in multiple nations

Canada

Origin: Native

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Present

Confidence: Confident

Type of Residency: Year-round

United States

Origin: Native

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Present

Confidence: Confident

Type of Residency: Year-round

Comments: Riparian or suburbs with its hosts, Prunus virginiana and genera Salix and Populus.

Non-Migrant: No. All populations of this species make significant seasonal migrations.

Locally Migrant: No. No populations of this species make local extended movements (generally less than 200 km) at particular times of the year (e.g., to breeding or wintering grounds, to hibernation sites).

Locally Migrant: No. No populations of this species make annual migrations of over 200 km.

Note: For many non-migratory species, occurrences are roughly equivalent to populations.

Estimated Number of Occurrences: 81 to >300

10,000 to >1,000,000 individuals

Males both perch and patrol for females (Scott, 1986).

The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.

There are 2 barcode sequences available from BOLD and GenBank.  Below is a sequence of the barcode region Cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI or COX1) from a member of the species.  See the BOLD taxonomy browser for more complete information about this specimen and other sequences.

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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 2
Specimens with Barcodes: 40
Species With Barcodes: 1

Canada

Rounded National Status Rank: N5 - Secure

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: N5 - Secure

Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure

Reasons: Widespread and common.

Degree of Threat: D : Unthreatened throughout its range, communities may be threatened in minor portions of the range or degree of variation falls within natural variation

Global Protection: Many to very many (13 to >40) occurrences appropriately protected and managed