Junonia terea

Soldier pansy
J. t. elgiva Tanzania
J. t. teroides Kibale Forest, Uganda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Junonia
Species:	J. terea
Binomial name
Junonia terea (Druce, 1773)[1]
Synonyms
Papilio terea Drury, 1773 Precis terea Junonia zipha Butler, 1869 Junonia elgiva Hewitson, 1864 Precis terea fumata Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 Precis terea f. januarii Ungemach, 1932 Precis tereoides Butler, 1901 Precis terea elgiva ab. gomensis Dufrane, 1945

Junonia terea, the soldier pansy or soldier commodore,^[2] is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in the Afrotropic ecozone.

The wingspan is 50–55 mm in males and 52–60 mm in females.^[2]

The larvae feed on Asystasia gangetica, Phaulopsis imbricata, and Ruellia patula.

Subspecies

• Junonia terea terea (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, western Kenya)
• Junonia terea elgiva Hewitson, 1864 (coast of Kenya, Tanzania, Pemba Island, Angola, eastern and southern Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, northern Zambia, Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe, Swaziland, South Africa: Limpopo Province, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape Province)
• Junonia terea fumata (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903) (Ethiopia, Somalia)
• Junonia terea tereoides (Butler, 1901) (northern Democratic Republic of Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, central Kenya, north-western Tanzania)

References

1. Junonia, funet.fi
2. Woodhall, S. (2005) Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town:Struik Publishers.