Junonia stygia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Junonia
- Species
- Junonia stygia
- Scientific Name
- Junonia stygia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Junonia stygia
Junonia stygia, the brown pansy, dark pansy or Aurivillius' brown pansy, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The habitat consists of forests, including disturbed areas and secondary forests.
The larvae feed on Paulowilhelmia sclerochiton, Asystasia, Barleria, Justicia, and Phaulopsis species.
...Junonia stygia in languages:
- English
- Brown Pansy
- English
- Dark Pansy
- English
- Aurivillius’ Brown Pansy
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Junonia adulatrix
- Junonia africana
- Junonia agnesberenyiae
- Junonia almana
- Junonia ansorgei
- Junonia artaxia
- Junonia atlites
- Junonia chorimene
- Junonia coenia
- Junonia cymodoce
- Junonia divaricata
- Junonia elgiva
- 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
- Junonia zonalis