Junonia sophia

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Little commodore
Little commodore (Junonia sophia infracta) dark form male.jpg
J. s. infracta male dark form, Kakamega Forest, Kenya
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J. sophia
Binomial name
Junonia sophia
(Fabricius, 1793)[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio sophia Fabricius, 1793
  • Precis sophia ab. ferenigra Schultze, 1920
  • Junonia infracta Butler, 1888
  • Precis sophia albida Suffert, 1904
  • Precis sophia ab. leucotincta Strand, 1911
  • Precis sophia f. nigeria Stoneham, 1934

Junonia sophia, the little commodore or little pansy, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests and savanna.

The larvae feed on , , , , Asystasia, Barleria, Justicia, and Ruellia species.

Subspecies[]

  • Junonia sophia sophia — Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon
  • Junonia sophia infracta Butler, 1888 — Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, eastern Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, western and central Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi, northern Zambia

References[]

  1. ^ "Junonia Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Junoniini". Archived from the original on 2013-11-10. Retrieved 2012-05-29.


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