Precis andremiaja

Precis andremiaja is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Madagascar.[2] The habitat consists of forest margins and anthropogenic environments. J. andremiaja is said by Mr. Cowan to be "common in houses on warm days".[3]

Precis andremiaja
Male illustrated in Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana, and female near Antananarivo, Madagascar
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nymphalidae
Genus:
Precis
Species:
P. andremiaja
Binomial name
Precis andremiaja
(Boisduval, 1833)[1]
Synonyms
  • Vanessa andremiaja Boisduval, 1833
  • Vanessa musa Guérin-Méneville, 1844
  • Precis boisduvali Staudinger, 1885
  • Junonia andremiaja Boisduval, 1833

The word andremiaja seems to be etymologically a Malagasy word. The root -miaja means to honor, to respect while andre-sequence, unknown in Malagasy, can be a strain of Andria- which would give Malagasy Andriamiaja, a fairly common surname.

References
  1. "Precis Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Junoniini". Archived from the original on 2013-11-10. Retrieved 2012-05-29.
  3. https://archive.org/stream/cbarchive_47393_acollectionofbutterfliesfromma1840/acollectionofbutterfliesfromma1840_djvu.txt


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