African Moths Gambia


     

Acontia insocia (Walker, 1857)

Unsociable Birdling.

SYNONYMS
Acontia concinnula, Acontia pyralina, Metapioplasta insocia,


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
Botswana, Burkina Fasso, Cameroon, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Corchorus capsularis, Gossypium, Hibiscus, Stenocline,

Acontia insocia
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside
Acontia insocia   Acontia insocia   Acontia insocia
 
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
Upperside (SO)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside
Acontia insocia   Acontia insocia   Acontia insocia

Photo: Oxford Museum

 


 

Photo: Manchester Museum

Underside
 

Larva (GM)

 

Live (ZA)

Acontia insocia

 
Acontia insocia

 

 

Acontia insocia

Photo: Oxford Museum     Photo: A. Liebenberg
Live male (TG)
 
Live female (GM)
 
Distribution Map
Acontia insocia   Acontia insocia   Map
Photo: J. Bowen