Whilst birdwatching the bottom valley of
the Raydah Escarpment in the Asir Mountains of southwest Saudi Arabia, I came
across and photographed a Golden Pansy Junonia
chorimene. The Golden Pansy, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family
and are commonly known as buckeyes, pansies or commodores. This genus flies on
every continent except Antarctica and Golden Pansy is found in Senegal, the
Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso,
Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan,
Ethiopia, Uganda, northern and western Kenya, northern Tanzania, south-western
Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The habitat consists of riverine vegetation and the
specimen I found was in a dry wadi at the bottom of the Raydah Escarpment.
