Limenitis reducta

Limenitis reducta, the southern white admiral, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.

This species can be found in central and southern Europe (northern Iberia, southern and eastern France, Italy, the Balkans, and the Alps),[16] in Western Asia, in Syria, the Caucasus and Iran.

[19] The upperside of the wings is brown black with metallic blue shine, large transversal band of white markings and a submarginal line of small blue dots.

This species is rather similar to Limenitis camilla, Neptis rivularis and Araschnia levana f. prorsa.

[18] Adults usually feed on nectar of a wide range of herbaceous and arboreal flowers, but also visit fallen fruits, dung, aphid secretions and mineralised moisture from damp ground.