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| Wet-season form of the fashion commodore basking in a garden | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Junoniini |
| Genus: | Precis Hübner, [1819] |
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Precis is a genus of nymphalid butterflies that Jacob Hübner described in 1819.[1] They are commonly known as commodores and are found in Africa. Two species are endemic to Madagascar.
- ^ Hübner, Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge, 17-176, 1819.