African Moths Gambia


     

Strigocossus moderata (Walker, 1856)

Bristly Goat.

SYNONYMS
Xyleutes vosseleri, Strigocossus vosseleri, Zeuzera moderata, Xyleutes leucopteris,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 12
ambahona, capensis, crassa, cretacea, elephas, guillemei, hepialoides, kushit, mediopallens, moderata, ochricosta, tandoensis,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Cameroon, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Cassia, Pterolobium,

 

Strigocossus moderata
Upperside (UG)
 
Upperside (UG)
 
Underside (CM)
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Live (CM)
 
 
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