Precis pelarga

Fashion commodore
	Wet-season form, São Tomé and Príncipe
	Dry season form, Uganda
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Precis
Species:	P. pelarga
Binomial name
	Precis pelarga; (Fabricius, 1775)
Synonyms
	Papilio pelarga Fabricius, 1775; Vanessa galami Boisduval, 1833; Papilio leodice Cramer, 1777; Papilio harpyia Fabricius, 1781; Papilio trullus Herbst, 1794; Precis harpyia (Fabricius, 1781); Precis monroviana Staudinger, 1885; Precis pelarga f. moyambensis Wichgraf, 1921; Kallimula pelarga f. proetigiana Stoneham, 1965;

Precis pelarga, the fashion commodore, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae which is native to tropical sub-Saharan Africa.

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