Junonia sophia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Junonia
- Species
- Junonia sophia
- Scientific Name
- Junonia sophia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Junonia sophia
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.
...Junonia sophia in languages:
- English
- Little Pansy
- English
- Little Commodore
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
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- Junonia africana
- Junonia agnesberenyiae
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- Junonia cymodoce
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- Junonia erigone
- Junonia evarete
- Junonia genoveva
- Junonia goudotii
- Junonia gregorii
- Junonia grisea
- Junonia hadrope
- Junonia hedonia
- Junonia hierta
- Junonia intermedia
- Junonia iphita
- Junonia lemonias
- Junonia litoralis
- Junonia natalica
- Junonia neildi
- Junonia nigrosuffusa
- Junonia oenone
- Junonia orithya
- Junonia pacoma
- Junonia rhadama
- Junonia schmiedeli
- Junonia sophia
- Junonia stemosa
- Junonia stygia
- Junonia terea
- Junonia timorensis
- Junonia touhilimasa
- Junonia vestina
- Junonia villida
- Junonia westermanni
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