Biology:Junonia cymodoce

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Junonia cymodoce
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Junonia
Species:
J. cymodoce
Binomial name
Junonia cymodoce
(Cramer, 1777)[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio cymodoce Cramer, 1777
  • Kamilla cymodoce
  • Kallima cymodoce var. lugens Schultze, 1912

Junonia cymodoce, the blue leaf butterfly or blue leaf pansy, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda, western Tanzania and north-western Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of lowland forests.

The larvae feed on Ruellia species and Asystasia gangetica.

Subspecies

  • Junonia cymodoce cymodoce (Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria)
  • Junonia cymodoce lugens (Schultze, 1912) (Cameroon, Bioko, São Tomé and Príncipe (Príncipe), Congo, Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda, western Tanzania, north-western Zambia)

References

Wikidata ☰ Q16754012 entry