Precis tugela

African leaf butterfly

In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Precis
Species:	P. tugela
Binomial name
*Precis tugela* Trimen, 1879
Synonyms
Junonia tugela Junonia aurorina Butler, 1894 Junonia pyriformis Butler, 1896

Precis tugela, the African leaf butterfly^[1] or eared commodore, is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in eastern and southern Africa, ranging from Ethiopia to South Africa. It is commonly included in the genus Precis instead of Junonia.

The wingspan is 55–60 mm in males and 58–64 mm in females.^[1]

The larvae feed on Plectranthus species and Englerastrum scandens.

Subspecies

Precis tugela tugela (eastern Zimbabwe, Swaziland, South Africa: Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal)
Precis tugela aurorina (Butler, 1894) (southern Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, northern and eastern Tanzania, Malawi)
Precis tugela pyriformis (Butler, 1896) (western Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, north-western Tanzania, northern Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Kivu, Shaba, Lomami, Lualaba)

References

1 2 Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN 978-1-86872-724-7.

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