African Moths Gambia


Nausinoe geometralis (Guenée, 1854)

Measured Pearl.

SYNONYMS
Lepyrodes geometralis,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 8
argyrosticta, capensis, geometralis, gueyraudi, perspecta, piabilis, quadrinalis, reussi,


DISTRIBUTION
DRCongo, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, La Reunoin, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Jasminum, Gardenia,

 

Nausinoe geometralis
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (ZA)
 
Upperside
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Upperside (ZA)
 
Upperside (SL)
 
Underside
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Live (DRC)
 
Live (ZA)
 
Distribution Map
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