Junonia terea, the soldier pansy or soldier commodore, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. The species was first described by Dru Drury in 1773. It is found in the Afrotropical realm.
The wingspan is 50âÂÂ55 mm in males and 52âÂÂ60 mm in females.
The larvae feed on Asystasia gangetica, Phaulopsis imbricata, and Ruellia patula.
Subspecies
- Junonia terea terea (Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Kenya)
- Junonia terea fumata <small>(Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)</small> (Ethiopia, Somalia)
- Junonia terea tereoides <small>(Butler, 1901)</small> (northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, central Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
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