Precis sinuata

Precis sinuata
Precis sinuata depicted in Seitz Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Precis
Species: P. sinuata
Binomial name
Precis sinuata
Plötz, 1880[1]
Synonyms
  • Precis serena Weymer, 1892
  • Precis sinuata var. pelargoides Aurivillius, 1891
  • Precis milonia sinuata ab. parvipunctis Strand, 1910

Precis sinuata, the wide-banded commodore, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique.[2] The habitat consists of forests and woodland.

The larvae feed on Platostoma species.

Subspecies

References

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