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Buckeyes & Pansies
Junonia
Junonia is a genus of nymphalid butterflies, described by Jacob Hübner in 1819. They are commonly known as buckeyes, pansies or commodores. This genus flies on every continent except Antarctica. The genus contains roughly 30 to 35 species.
46 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Common Buckeye
speciesJunonia coenia

Gray Buckeye
speciesJunonia grisea

Lemon Pansy
speciesJunonia lemonias

Chocolate Pansy
speciesJunonia iphita

Peacock Pansy
speciesJunonia almana

Meadow Argus
speciesJunonia villida

Blue Pansy
speciesJunonia orithya

Brown Pansy
speciesJunonia hedonia

Grey Pansy
speciesJunonia atlites

Yellow Pansy
speciesJunonia hierta

Common Mangrove Buckeye
speciesJunonia genoveva

Blue-spot Pansy
speciesJunonia oenone

South American Tropical Buckeye
speciesJunonia evarete

West Indian Mangrove Buckeye
speciesJunonia neildi

Northern Tropical Buckeye
speciesJunonia zonalis

Spotted Brown Pansy
speciesJunonia natalica

Yellow-banded Pansy
speciesJunonia elgiva

Little Pansy
speciesJunonia sophia

Soldier Commodore
speciesJunonia terea

Andean buckeye
speciesJunonia vestina

Royal Blue Pansy
speciesJunonia rhadama

Dark Buckeye
speciesJunonia nigrosuffusa

Twintip Buckeye
speciesJunonia stemosa

Golden Pansy
speciesJunonia chorimene

Pacific Mangrove Buckeye
speciesJunonia pacoma

Northern Argus
speciesJunonia erigone

Gregori’s Brown Pansy
speciesJunonia gregorii

Island Brown Pansy
speciesJunonia goudotii

Junonia intermedia
speciesJunonia intermedia

Eastern Blue Mother-of-Pearl
speciesJunonia temora

Aurivillius’ Brown Pansy
speciesJunonia stygia

African Pansy
speciesJunonia artaxia

Blue-spot Pansy
speciesJunonia westermanni

Western Blue Mother-of-Pearl
speciesJunonia cytora

South American Mangrove Buckeye
speciesJunonia litoralis

Junonia divaricata
speciesJunonia divaricata

Blue Leaf Pansy
speciesJunonia cymodoce

Naval Pansy
speciesJunonia touhilimasa

Ansorge’s Leaf Pansy
speciesJunonia ansorgei

Timor Pansy
speciesJunonia timorensis

Junonia wahlbergi
speciesJunonia wahlbergi

Junonia adulatrix
speciesJunonia adulatrix
Congo Pansy
speciesJunonia schmiedeli
Cameroon Pansy
speciesJunonia africana
Shiny Leaf-pansy
speciesJunonia agnesberenyiae

Volta Pansy
speciesJunonia hadrope
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48506.