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