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Air commodore
male and female
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Precis
Species:	P. actia
Binomial name
Precis actia Distant, 1880
Synonyms
Precis vetula Staudinger, 1885 Precis pelarga f. furcata Rothschild and Jordan, 1903 Precis pelarga albofasciata Suffert, 1904 Precis actia rubrofasciata Suffert, 1904

Precis actia, the air commodore, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Angola, the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, northern Zambia, Zimbabwe, and western Mozambique. The habitat consists of Brachystegia woodland and savanna.

Both sexes are attracted to flowers and males also engage in mud-puddling.

The larvae feed on Platostoma species.

References

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

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