Precis pelarga

Fashion commodore
Wet-season form, São Tomé and Príncipe
Dry season form, Uganda
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Precis
Species:
P. pelarga
Binomial name
Precis pelarga
(Fabricius, 1775)
Synonyms
  • Papilio pelarga Fabricius, 1775
  • Vanessa galami Boisduval, 1833
  • Papilio leodice Cramer, 1777
  • Papilio harpyia Fabricius, 1781
  • Papilio trullus Herbst, 1794
  • Precis harpyia (Fabricius, 1781)
  • Precis monroviana Staudinger, 1885
  • Precis pelarga f. moyambensis Wichgraf, 1921
  • Kallimula pelarga f. proetigiana Stoneham, 1965

Precis pelarga, the fashion commodore, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae which is native to tropical sub-Saharan Africa.

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