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Species of butterfly

Junonia sophia

Junonia sophia infracta male dark form, Kakamega Forest, Kenya
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Junonia
Species:	J. sophia
Binomial name
*Junonia sophia* (Fabricius, 1793)
Synonyms
Papilio sophia Fabricius, 1793 Precis sophia ab. ferenigra Schultze, 1920 Junonia infracta Butler, 1888 Precis sophia albida Suffert, 1904 Precis sophia ab. leucotincta Strand, 1911 Precis sophia f. nigeria Stoneham, 1934

Junonia sophia, the little commodore or little pansy, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia. The habitat consists of forests and savanna.

The larvae feed on Paulowilhelmia sclerochiton, Hypoestes verticillaris, Brillantaisa lamium, Sclerochiton paulowilhelmina, Asystasia, Barleria, Justicia, and Ruellia species.

Subspecies

Junonia sophia sophia — Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon
Junonia sophia infracta Butler, 1888 — Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, eastern Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, western and central Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi, northern Zambia

Female J. s. sophia white form
Ghana
J. s. sophia, white form
Ghana
Female J. s. sophia dark form
Ghana
$J. s. infracta, male white form Harenna Forest, Ethiopia$ J. s. infracta, male white form
Harenna Forest, Ethiopia
$J. s. infracta, white form Kakamega Forest, Kenya$ J. s. infracta, white form
Kakamega Forest, Kenya
$J. s. infracta, dark form Kakamega Forest, Kenya$ J. s. infracta, dark form
Kakamega Forest, Kenya

References

"Junonia Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
"Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Junoniini". Archived from the original on 2013-11-10. Retrieved 2012-05-29.

Taxon identifiers
Junonia sophia	Wikidata: Q6314273 BioLib: 446205 BOLD: 26750 CoL: 6NHMC EoL: 163156 GBIF: 5130467 iNaturalist: 320718 IRMNG: 10987104 LepIndex: 157398 NCBI: 311034 Observation.org: 106657

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