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Lemon Pansy

Junonia lemonias

Lemon Pansy (Junonia lemonias) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Lemon Pansy (Junonia lemonias) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Thana, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Scientific name
Junonia lemonias
Family
Nymphalidae, order Lepidoptera
Group
Insect

A brown butterfly with eyespots to fool predators.

  • Spot it Brown wings with orange-yellow spots and eye-like marks.
  • Home Open grass and gardens.
  • Food web Caterpillars eat acanthus-family plants; adults visit flowers.
  • Why it matters Pollinates flowers, and its eyespots show how prey survive; its caterpillars feed birds and wasps.

Read more: Junonia lemonias on Wikipedia

Sources and credits

Records and field notes

  • RajasthanDevendra Bhardwaj has 2 verified records of this species on iNaturalist, between 2020 and 2026, in Jaipur.[20]

Sources

  1. Devendra Bhardwaj. iNaturalist observations and notes, with place and date (inaturalist.org/people/devendrabhardwaj) (field record). The observer's own dated records and notes, with places. Statements in his notes are his own and were not independently checked by KJVF.
  2. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
  3. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (opening lines of each species article, CC BY-SA 4.0). The link on each entry goes to the article (reference). Not peer reviewed. Only the opening description is used, and statements about origin or medicinal use are left out.
  4. Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

The tag before each record shows the place it was checked for.

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