Species name
Precis pelarga
(Fabricius, 1775)
Common commodore
Taxonomy
Papilio pelarga
Fabricius, 1775.
Systema Entomologiae
513 (832 pp.). Flensburgi & Lipsiae.
Type locality: [Africa]: “
Brasilia
”. [False locality.]
Subspecies
Geographical Range
Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, to Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo (Shaba), Zambia (north), Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya (west)
.
Distribution Map
Biology
Host plant
:
Theobroma cacao (Theobromaceae) [Smith, 1965].
Solenostemon rotundifolius (Lamiaceae) [Vuattoux and Blandin, 1979 (
Ivory Coast
)].
Plectranthus species (Lamiacae) [Larsen, 2005a; as Coleus].
Nigeria
Nigeria
Nigeria
Nigeria
References
Junonia, Site of Markku Savela
Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Junoniini