Precis archesia

Garden inspector
f. pelasgis in Tanzania, East Africa
f. archesia in South Africa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Precis
Species:	P. archesia
Binomial name
Precis archesia (Cramer, [1779])
Synonyms
Papilio archesiaCramer, 1779 Junonia archesia Vanessa pelasgisGodart, 1819 Junonia chapungaHewitson, 1864 Precis staudingeriDewitz, 1879 Precis guruanaRogenhofer, 1891 Precis archesia var. semitypicaAurivillius, 1899 Precis archesia var. striataAurivillius, 1901 Precis archesia ab. inornataNeustetter, 1916 Precis archesia f. coryndoniRothschild, 1918 Precis archesia f. obsoletaJoicey and Talbot, 1921 Junonia archesia ugandensisMcLeod, 1980

Precis archesia, the garden inspector or garden commodore, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae, native to Subsaharan Africa. ^[1]

Wingspan: 45–50 mm for males and 50–60 mm for females. ^[1]

Flight period is year-round with two main broods from September to March and April to August. ^[1]

Subspecies

• P. a. archesia — Kenya, Tanzania, southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Zambia to Zimbabwe, Botswana, Eswatini, South Africa: Limpopo Province, Mpumalanga, North West Province, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape Province, Western Cape Province to the south-east
• P. a. ugandensis (McLeod, 1980) — Sudan, Uganda

Diet

Larval food plants include Plectranthus esculentus , Plectranthus fruticosus , Rabdosiella calycina , Pycnostachys reticulata , and Pycnostachys urticifolia . ^{[1] [2]}

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  Precis archesia f. pelasgis, illustrated in Seitz (1910)
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  P. archesia f. archesia female (rounder wings than male) in Seitz (1910)
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  Underside of wings, f. archesia

References

1. Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN   978-1-86872-724-7.
2. Precis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms