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Precis archesia

species of butterfly

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ7239489 ↗
Source-derived summary

Precis archesia, the garden inspector or garden commodore, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae, native to Subsaharan Africa.

Wingspan: 45–50 mm for males and 50–60 mm for females.

Flight period is year-round with two main broods from September to March and April to August.

Subspecies

P. a. archesia — Kenya, Tanzania, southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Zambia to Zimbabwe, Botswana, Eswatini, South Africa: Limpopo Province, Mpumalanga, North West Province, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape Province, Western Cape Province to the south-east

P. a. ugandensis (McLeod, 1980) — Sudan, Uganda

Diet

Larval food plants include Plectranthus esculentus, Plectranthus fruticosus, Rabdosiella calycina, Pycnostachys reticulata, and Pycnostachys urticifolia.

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“Precis archesia” enters the record as species of butterfly. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Precis, archesia and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Precis, archesia and species.
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“Precis archesia” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Precis, archesia and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7239489. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “Precis archesia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.