Precis ceryne, the marsh commodore, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae, native to Subsaharan Africa.[1][2]
Marsh commodore | |
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The dry-season form (f. tukuoa) of the nominate subspecies in South Africa | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Precis |
Species: | P. ceryne
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Binomial name | |
Precis ceryne (Boisduval, 1847)
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Synonyms | |
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Wingspan: 40–45 mm in males and 42–50 mm in females.[1]
Subspecies
edit- P. c. ceryne – Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa, Eswatini
- P. c. ceruana Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 – Guinea, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon
Diet
editLarval food plants include Coleus, Plastostema, and Pycnostachys species.[2]
References
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