African Moths Gambia


Acantharctia mundata(Walker, 1865)

 

SYNONYMS
Halesidota mundata, Spilosoma atridorsia, Acantharctia lacteata,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 12
ansorgei, atriramosa, bivittata, flavicosta, latifasciata, latifusca, metaleuca, mundata, nigrivena, nivea, tenuifasciata, vittata.

 

DISTRIBUTION
DRCongo, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Theobroma cacao,

 

Acantharctia mundata
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Underside (GM)
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Live (GM)
 
 
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