Precis archesia
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Garden inspector | |
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f. pelasgis in Tanzania, East Africa | |
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f. archesia in South Africa | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Precis |
Species: | P. archesia
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Binomial name | |
Precis archesia (Cramer, [1779])
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Precis archesia, the garden inspector or garden commodore, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae, native to Subsaharan Africa.[1]
Wingspan: 45–50 mm for males and 50–60 mm for females.[1]
Flight period is year-round with two main broods between September to March and April to August.[1]
Subspecies
- P. a. archesia — Kenya, Tanzania, southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Zambia to Zimbabwe, Botswana, Eswatini, South Africa: Limpopo Province, Mpumalanga, North West Province, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape Province, Western Cape Province to the south-east
- P. a. ugandensis (McLeod, 1980) — Sudan, Uganda
Diet
Larval food plants include Plectranthus esculentus, Plectranthus fruticosus, Rabdosiella calycina, Pycnostachys reticulata, and Pycnostachys urticifolia.[1][2]
Precis archesia f. pelasgis, illustrated in Seitz (1910)
References
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