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Junonia orithya is a nymphalid butterfly with many subspecies occurring from Africa, through southern and south-eastern Asia, and in Australia. [1] [2] [3] In India, its common English name is the blue pansy, [2] [3] but in southern Africa it is known as the eyed pansy as the name blue pansy refers to Junonia oenone.
Junonia oenone, the blue pansy or dark blue pansy, is a Nymphalid butterfly native to Africa. [2] [3] "Blue pansy" is also used in India to describe Junonia orithya. [1]
dark blue pansy: Madagascar, Aldabra, Astove, Assumption and Cosmoledo Island. Junonia orithya (Linnaeus, 1758) eyed pansy or blue pansy: south-eastern Asia, Cambodia and in Australia Junonia pacoma Grishin, 2020: Pacific mangrove buckeye: western Mexico. Junonia rhadama (Boisduval, 1833) brilliant blue
Junonia westermanni, the blue spot pansy, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the central part of the Afrotropical realm. female, upper and ...
The lemon pansy is a very active butterfly and can be seen basking with its wings open facing the sun. It sits very low to the ground and can be approached easily. It feeds with its wings half open. It is a fairly strong flier and flies close to the ground with rapid wingbeats and often returns to settle back in the same spots. [3] [4]
Junonia rhadama, the brilliant blue, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Madagascar, Mauritius, Rodrigues, Réunion, the Comoros, and the Seychelles (Astove Island). [2] The habitat consists of transformed grasslands and Anthropogenic biomeanthropogenic environments. The larvae feed on Barleria species.
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]
A blue-centered well-marked ocelli is in interspaces 2 and 5 on the disc of the forewing, and smaller ocelli in interspaces 2 and 5 on the disc of the hindwing. The forewings and hindwings have a fairly well-defined pale subterminal line, though the blue spot on the anterior black area on the hindwing is small and ill-defined; the rest is as ...