Precis sinuata
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| name= Wide-banded commodore
| image = SeitzFaunaAfricanaXIIITaf51, Precis sinuata.jpg
| image_caption = In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
| taxon = Precis sinuata
| authority = Plötz, 1880[http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/nymphalinae/precis/ "Precis Hübner, [1819]"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
| synonyms =
- Precis serena Weymer, 1892
- Precis sinuata var. pelargoides Aurivillius, 1891
- Precis milonia sinuata ab. parvipunctis Strand, 1910
}}
Precis sinuata, the wide-banded commodore, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique.{{Cite web |url=http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/nymphalidae_junoniini.doc |title=Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Junoniini |access-date=2012-05-29 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131110182233/http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/nymphalidae_junoniini.doc |archive-date=2013-11-10 |url-status=dead }} The habitat consists of forests and woodland.
The larvae feed on Platostoma species.
Subspecies
- Precis sinuata sinuata — Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, São Tomé Island, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Tanzania, northern Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique
- Precis sinuata hecqui Berger, 1981 — Democratic Republic of the Congo: Kivu, western Uganda, Rwanda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania
References
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Category:Butterflies described in 1880
Category:Butterflies of Africa
Category:Taxa named by Carl Plötz
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