Precis sinuata

Wide-banded commodore
Precis sinuata depicted in Seitz Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Precis
Species:	P. sinuata
Binomial name
Precis sinuata Plötz, 1880
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 Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique. 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, Sao Tome Island, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Tanzania, northern Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique)
• Precis sinuata hecqui Berger, 1981 (Democratic Republic of Congo: Kivu, western Uganda, Rwanda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)