Biology:Precis coelestina

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Ocellated commodore
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In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Precis
Species:
P. coelestina
Binomial name
Precis coelestina
Dewitz, 1879[1]
Synonyms
  • Precis coelestina f. jordani Aurivillius, 1913
  • Kallimula coelestina f. obscurans Stoneham, 1965

Precis coelestina, the ocellated commodore, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa, Kasai, Sankuru, Lualaba), Uganda, western Kenya, southern Sudan, western Ethiopia and Somalia.[2] The habitat consists of semi montane areas.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q7239490 entry