Junonia chorimene
Junonia chorimene | |
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in Ghana | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Junonia |
Species: | J. chorimene |
Binomial name | |
Junonia chorimene (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)[1] | |
Synonyms | |
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Junonia chorimene, the golden pansy, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Uele, Ituri, Kivu and Lualaba), Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, northern and western Kenya, northern Tanzania, south-western Arabia and Yemen.[2] The habitat consists of riverine vegetation.
The larvae feed on Asystasia schimperi, Justicia leikepiensis, Barleria, Hypoestes, Paulowilhelmia and Ruellia species.
References
Wikispecies has information related to Junonia chorimene |
- ↑ "Junonia Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Junoniini
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