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Precis archesia

Garden inspector
Garden Inspector, Africa.jpg
f. pelasgis in Tanzania, East Africa
Precis archesia subsp archesia, v archesia, Pretoria.jpg
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
Precis archesia
(Cramer, [1779])
Synonyms
  • Papilio archesia Cramer, 1779
  • Junonia archesia
  • Vanessa pelasgis Godart, 1819
  • Junonia chapunga Hewitson, 1864
  • Precis staudingeri Dewitz, 1879
  • Precis guruana Rogenhofer, 1891
  • Precis archesia var. semitypica Aurivillius, 1899
  • Precis archesia var. striata Aurivillius, 1901
  • Precis archesia ab. inornata Neustetter, 1916
  • Precis archesia f. coryndoni Rothschild, 1918
  • Precis archesia f. obsoleta Joicey and Talbot, 1921
  • Junonia archesia ugandensis McLeod, 1980

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.


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