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Precis orithya madagascarensis

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Precis orithya madagascarensis (Guenee)
Junonia orithya var. madagascarensis Guenee, 1864: 37 (Madagascar).
The nominate subspecies is Asian; madagascarensis is found on Madagascar and widely in Africa. Carnegie Museum has a female from Sierra Leone collected by A. I. Good and a male from Liberia, the collector unknown. I did not find it and I suspect that it is a savanna species which occurs in the rain forest belt only as a stray.
Liberia: without locality, date or collector, 1 S (Carnegie Museum via Krautworm Collection).
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bibliographic citation
Fox, R.M., Lindsey, A.W., Clench, H.K., Miller, L.D. 1965. The Butterflies of Liberia. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society vol. 19. Philadelphia, USA