Junonia cymodoce, the blue leaf butterfly or blue leaf pansy, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda, western Tanzania and north-western Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of lowland forests.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Junonia |
| Species: | J. cymodoce
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The larvae feed on Ruellia species and Asystasia gangetica.
Subspecies edit
- Junonia cymodoce cymodoce (Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria)
- Junonia cymodoce lugens (Schultze, 1912) (Cameroon, Bioko, São Tomé and Príncipe (Príncipe), Congo, Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda, western Tanzania, north-western Zambia)
References edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Junonia cymodoce.
- ^ "Junonia Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Junoniini". Archived from the original on 2013-11-10. Retrieved 2012-05-29.
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