Junonia_terea

<i>Junonia terea</i>

Junonia terea

Species of butterfly

Junonia terea, the soldier pansy or soldier commodore,[1] is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. The species was first described by Dru Drury in 1773.[2] It is found in the Afrotropical realm.[3]

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The wingspan is 50–55 mm in males and 52–60 mm in females.[1]

The larvae feed on Asystasia gangetica, Phaulopsis imbricata, and Ruellia patula.

Subspecies

  • Junonia terea terea (Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Kenya)
  • Junonia terea fumata (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903) (Ethiopia, Somalia)
  • Junonia terea tereoides (Butler, 1901) (northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, central Kenya, north-western Tanzania)

References

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  1. [1]
    Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN 978-1-86872-724-7.
  2. [2]
    Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Junonia terea​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved December 29, 2019.
  3. [3]
    Savela, Markku (March 25, 2019). "Junonia terea (Drury, 1773)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 29, 2019.


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