- Source: Junonia terea
Junonia terea, the soldier pansy or soldier commodore, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. The species was first described by Dru Drury in 1773. It is found in the Afrotropical realm.
The wingspan is 50–55 mm in males and 52–60 mm in females.
The larvae feed on Asystasia gangetica, Phaulopsis imbricata, and Ruellia patula.
Subspecies
Junonia terea terea (Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Kenya)
Junonia terea fumata (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903) (Ethiopia, Somalia)
Junonia terea tereoides (Butler, 1901) (northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, central Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Junonia
- Junonia terea
- Junonia
- List of butterflies of South Africa
- List of butterflies of Tanzania
- Asystasia gangetica
- List of butterflies of Sierra Leone
- List of butterflies of Guinea-Bissau
- List of butterflies of Nigeria
- List of butterflies of Liberia
- List of butterflies of Burkina Faso
