---
title: "Borboleta vice-rei"
description: "Limenitis archippus — Insetos e aranhas. The viceroy (Limenitis archippus) is a North American butterfly."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/viceroy
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Borboleta vice-rei

> Limenitis archippus — Insetos e aranhas. The viceroy (Limenitis archippus) is a North American butterfly.

- Scientific name: *Limenitis archippus*
- Category: `insects` (Insetos e aranhas)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 53192
- Wikidata: [Q310832](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310832)
- iNaturalist taxon: [58586](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/58586)

## Names

- en: Viceroy
- de: Vizekönig
- es: Mariposa virrey
- fr: Vice-roi
- pt: Borboleta vice-rei

## Countries with the most observations

US (38875), CA (11475), MX (256)

## Summary

The viceroy (Limenitis archippus) is a North American butterfly. It was long thought to be a Batesian mimic of the monarch butterfly, but since the viceroy is also distasteful to predators, it is now considered a Müllerian mimic instead.
The viceroy was named the state butterfly of Kentucky in 1990.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viceroy_(butterfly)

## Photo

![Borboleta vice-rei](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/viceroy/medium.jpg)

Photo: Lynn Harper · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/123905504

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/viceroy?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).