Junonia terea

Soldier pansy

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Junonia
Species:	J. terea
Binomial name
*Junonia terea* (Druce, 1773)^[1]
Synonyms
Papilio terea Drury, 1773 Precis terea Junonia zipha Butler, 1869 Junonia elgiva Hewitson, 1864 Precis terea fumata Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 Precis terea f. januarii Ungemach, 1932 Precis tereoides Butler, 1901 Precis terea elgiva ab. gomensis Dufrane, 1945

Junonia terea, the soldier pansy or soldier commodore,^[2] is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in the Afrotropic ecozone.

The wingspan is 50–55 mm in males and 52–60 mm in females.^[2]

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

Subspecies

Junonia terea terea (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, western Kenya)
Junonia terea elgiva Hewitson, 1864 (coast of Kenya, Tanzania, Pemba Island, Angola, eastern and southern Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, northern Zambia, Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe, Swaziland, South Africa: Limpopo Province, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape Province)
Junonia terea fumata (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903) (Ethiopia, Somalia)
Junonia terea tereoides (Butler, 1901) (northern Democratic Republic of Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, central Kenya, north-western Tanzania)

References

↑ Junonia, funet.fi
1 2 Woodhall, S. (2005) Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town:Struik Publishers.

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