Precis (lat.) - the genus of day butterflies from the family Nymphalidae ( Nymphalidae ) [1] .
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Description
Relatively small butterflies with a wingspan of about 5-6 cm. On the wings above and often below, there are ocular spots. The central cell of the front wing is closed. The eyes are bare. Labial palps covered with hairs. On the fore wings, the veins R1, R2 do not branch and originate from the central cell. R3, R4, R5 have a common trunk, which also starts from the central cell. Veins R1 and R2 go to the costal margin of the fore wing, R3 extends to the apex, and R4, R5 [2] to the outer edge of the wing. Caterpillars feed on plants of the Lamiaceae family .
Views
Precis archesia
Precision octavia
The genus includes species: [3]
- Precis actia Distant, 1880
- Precis andremiaja Boisduval, 1833
- Precis antilope (Feisthamel, 1850)
- Precis archesia (Cramer, [1779])
- Precis ceryne (Boisduval, 1847)
- Precis coelestina Dewitz, 1879
- Precis cuama (Hewitson, 1864)
- Precis eurodoce (Westwood, 1850)
- Precis frobeniusi Strand, 1909
- Precis limnoria (Klug, 1845)
- Precis milonia C. & R. Felder, [1867]
- Precis octavia (Cramer, [1777])
- Precis pelarga (Fabricius, 1775)
- Precis rauana (Grose-Smith, 1898)
- Precis sinuata Plötz, 1880
- Precis tugela Trimen, 1879
Incertae sedis
- Precis permagna Martin, 1920
Notes
- ↑ Lewis, HL (1974). Butterflies of the World. ISBN 0-245-52097-X
- ↑ Key to insects of the Russian Far East. T. V. Caddis flies and lepidopterans. Part 5 / under the general. ed. P.A. Lera . - Vladivostok: Dalnauka, 2005 .-- 575 p. - 500 copies. - ISBN 5-8044-0597-7 .
- ↑ " Precis Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms