Precis andremiaja

Precis andremiaja
	Male illustrated in Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana, and female near Antananarivo, Madagascar
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Precis
Species:	P. andremiaja
Binomial name
	Precis andremiaja; (Boisduval, 1833)
Synonyms
	Vanessa andremiaja Boisduval, 1833; Vanessa musa Guérin-Méneville, 1844; Precis boisduvali Staudinger, 1885; Junonia andremiaja Boisduval, 1833;

Precis andremiaja is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Madagascar.^[2] The habitat consists of forest margins and anthropogenic environments. J. andremiaja is said by Mr. Cowan to be "common in houses on warm days".^[3]

The word andremiaja seems to be etymologically a Malagasy word. The root -miaja means to honor, to respect while andre-sequence, unknown in Malagasy, can be a strain of Andria- which would give Malagasy Andriamiaja, a fairly common surname.

References[]

^ "Precis 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 2012-05-29.
^ "A collection of butterflies from Madagascar". 1840.

External links[]

Image from Museum of Comparative Zoology
Identification for P. andremiaja male and female

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[funet-1] "Precis Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[ATBUT-2] "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Junoniini". Archived from the original on 2013-11-10. Retrieved 2012-05-29.

[3] "A collection of butterflies from Madagascar". 1840.

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