| Garden inspector | |
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| f. pelasgis in Tanzania, East Africa | |
| f. archesia in South Africa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Junoniini |
| Genus: | Precis |
| Species: | P. archesia |
| Binomial name | |
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Precis archesia (Cramer, [1779]) |
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Precis archesia, the garden inspector or garden commodore, is a species of butterfly in the Nymphalidae family, native to Subsaharan Africa.
Wingspan: 45–50 mm for males and 50–60 mm for females.
Flight period is year-round with two main broods between September to March and April to August.
Larval food plants include Plectranthus esculentus, Plectranthus fruticosus, Rabdosiella calycina, Pycnostachys reticulata, and Pycnostachys urticifolia.