Junonia chorimene

Junonia chorimene, the golden pansy, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Uele, Ituri, Kivu and Lualaba), Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, northern and western Kenya, northern Tanzania, south-western Arabia and Yemen.^[2] The habitat consists of riverine vegetation.

Junonia chorimene
In Ghana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Junonia
Species:	J. chorimene
Binomial name
Junonia chorimene (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)^[1]
Synonyms
Vanessa chorimene Guérin-Méneville, 1844 Vanessa orthosia Klug, 1845 Salamis ethyra Feisthamel, 1850 Precis chorimene f. angulata Aurivillius, 1913

The larvae feed on Asystasia schimperi, Justicia leikepiensis, Barleria, Hypoestes, Paulowilhelmia and Ruellia species.

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1. "Junonia Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. . Archived from the original on 2013-11-10. Retrieved 2012-05-25.