African Moths Gambia


     

Afrospilarctia lucida (Druce, 1898)

 

SYNONYMS
Spilosoma lucida, Euchaetes lucida, Spilosoma steudeli, Afrospilarctia steudeli

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 5
dentivalva, dissimilis, falvidus, lucida, unipuncta,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Aster, Boerhavia, Commelina, Cosmos, Morus, Zinnia

Afrospilarctia lucida
Upperside (UG)
 
Upperside (UG)
 
Upperside (TZ)
Afrospilarctia lucida   Afrospilarctia lucida   Afrospilarctia lucida
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