Junonia chorimene

Junonia chorimene
	in Ghana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Junonia
Species:	J. chorimene
Binomial name
	Junonia chorimene; (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
Synonyms
	Vanessa chorimene Guérin-Méneville, 1844; Vanessa orthosia Klug, 1845; Salamis ethyra Feisthamel, 1850; Precis chorimene f. angulata Aurivillius, 1913;

Junonia chorimene, the golden pansy, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Uele, Ituri, Kivu and Lualaba), Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, northern and western Kenya, northern Tanzania, south-western Arabia and Yemen.^[2] The habitat consists of riverine vegetation.

The larvae feed on , , Barleria, Hypoestes, and Ruellia species.

References[]

^ "Junonia Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Junoniini". Archived from the original on 2013-11-10. Retrieved 2012-05-25.

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