African Moths Gambia


     

Acontia caffraria (Cramer, 1777)

Caffraria Droplet.

SYNONYMS
Phaleana caffraria, Noctua caloris, Acontia komaga, Tarache caffraria,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 173
antica, aurelia, basifera, caeruleopicta, caffraria, carnescens, discoidea, dispar, ectorrida, glaphyra, gradata, guttifera, hortensis, imitatrix, insocia, lucida, luteola, margaritata, melaphora, natalis, niphogona, nubila, nubilata, opalinoides, porphyrea, psaliphora, tinctilis, transfigurata, trychaenoides, umbrigera, wahlbergi,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Unknown,

Acontia caffraria
Upperside (SO)
 

Upperside

 
Upperside (ZA)
Acontia caffraria   Acontia caffraria   Acontia caffraria
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
Upperside (ZA)
 
Larva (ZA)
 
Distribution Map
Acontia caffraria   Acontia caffraria   Map
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: H. Roland