African Moths Gambia


     

Philotherma sordida Aurivillius, 1905

 

SYNONYMS
Philitherma testaceicornis,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 25
apithana, brunnea, clara, fusca, fuscescens, goliath, grisea, heringi, jacchus, kittenbergeri, leucocyma, media, melambela, obscura, rectilinea, rennei, rosa, rufescens, simplex, sordida, spargata, tandoensis, thoracica, unicolor, vulpecula,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Cameroon, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda, Zambia,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Ipomoea batatas, Sapium ellipticom,

 

Philotherma sordida
Upperside (SL)
 

Underside (SL)

 

Live (SL)

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Live (LR)
 
Live (LR)
 
Distribution Map
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