Junonia sophia

Little commodore
Kakamega Forest, Kenya
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Junonia
Species:	J. sophia
Binomial name
Junonia sophia (Fabricius, 1793)[1]
Synonyms
Papilio sophia Fabricius, 1793 Precis sophia ab. ferenigra Schultze, 1920 Junonia infracta Butler, 1888 Precis sophia albida Suffert, 1904 Precis sophia ab. leucotincta Strand, 1911 Precis sophia f. nigeria Stoneham, 1934

Junonia sophia, the little commodore or little pansy, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia.^[2] The habitat consists of forests and savanna.

The larvae feed on Paulowilhelmia sclerochiton, Hypoestes verticillaris, Brillantaisa lamium, Sclerochiton paulowilhelmina, Asystasia, Barleria, Justicia, and Ruellia species.

Subspecies

• Junonia sophia sophia (Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon)
• Junonia sophia infracta Butler, 1888 (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, eastern Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, western and central Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi, northern Zambia)

• 
  J. s. infracta, white form
  Kakamega Forest, Kenya
• 
  J. s. infracta, dark form
  Kakamega Forest
• 
  Female J. s. sophia
  Ghana

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