African Moths Gambia


     

Palpita metallata (Fabricius, 1781)

 

SYNONYMS
Phalaena metallata,
Glyphodes picticaudalis, Glyphodes ocellata,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 20
aethrophanes, bonjongalis, caegigena, carbonifusalis, cirrhopis, claralis, conistolalis, elealis, horocrates, irroratalis, jacobsalis, lobisignalis, metallata, ocelliferalis, paulianalis, phaealis, seminigralis, stenocraspis, tsisabiensis, vitrealis,


DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Cameroon, Comoros, DRCongo, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda,

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Funtumia,

Palpita metallata
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
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Upperside (GM)
 
Underside (GM)
 
Live (GM)
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Live (GM)
  Live (DRC)   Live (MA)
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Palpita metallata
 
Palpita metallata
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Distribution Map
 
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