Precis archesia

Precis archesia, the garden inspector or garden commodore, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae, native to Subsaharan Africa.[1]

Garden inspector
f. pelasgis in Tanzania, East Africa
f. archesia in South Africa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Precis
Species:
P. archesia
Binomial name
Precis archesia
(Cramer, [1779])
Synonyms
  • Papilio archesia Cramer, 1779
  • Junonia archesia
  • Vanessa pelasgis Godart, 1819
  • Junonia chapunga Hewitson, 1864
  • Precis staudingeri Dewitz, 1879
  • Precis guruana Rogenhofer, 1891
  • Precis archesia var. semitypica Aurivillius, 1899
  • Precis archesia var. striata Aurivillius, 1901
  • Precis archesia ab. inornata Neustetter, 1916
  • Precis archesia f. coryndoni Rothschild, 1918
  • Precis archesia f. obsoleta Joicey and Talbot, 1921
  • Junonia archesia ugandensis McLeod, 1980

Wingspan: 45–50 mm for males and 50–60 mm for females.[1]

Flight period is year-round with two main broods from 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)
    Precis archesia f. pelasgis, illustrated in Seitz (1910)
  • P. archesia f. archesia female (rounder wings than male) in Seitz (1910)
    P. archesia f. archesia female (rounder wings than male) in Seitz (1910)
  • Underside of wings, f. archesia
    Underside of wings, f. archesia


References
  1. Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN 978-1-86872-724-7.
  2. Precis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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