Bug FAQLemon Pansy
Junonia lemonias · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Nymphalidae
The lemon pansy has brown upper wings with black and lemon-yellow spots and lines, while the underside is a dull brown with wavy brown and black markings.
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How to recognize it
Upper wings are brown with many eyespots and black-lemon-yellow spots and lines. Underside is dull brown with wavy lines and spots in shades of brown and black.
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What it eats
Caterpillars eat plants from the Acanthaceae, Amaranthaceae, Malvaceae, Rubiaceae, Tiliaceae and Verbenaceae families. Adults feed with their wings half open.
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Where it comes from
Common in Cambodia and South Asia.
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Questions people ask
How are lemon pansy eggs laid?
The female lays each egg alone on the underside of a leaf.
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What do lemon pansy caterpillars look like?
They are cylindrical, uniformly thick and have rows of spines that split at the tips.
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Same family (Nymphalidae)
Sources
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junonia_lemonias
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Text written 2026-10-24 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.