Precis sinuata
Wide-banded commodore | |
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In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Precis |
Species: | P. sinuata |
Binomial name | |
Precis sinuata Plötz, 1880[1] | |
Synonyms | |
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Precis sinuata, the wide-banded commodore, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique.[2] The habitat consists of forests and woodland.
The larvae feed on Platostoma species.
Subspecies
- Precis sinuata sinuata (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, São Tomé Island, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Tanzania, northern Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique)
- Precis sinuata hecqui Berger, 1981 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Kivu, western Uganda, Rwanda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
References
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- ↑ "Precis Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Junoniini
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