African Moths Gambia


     

Alpenus nigropunctata (Bethune-Baker, 1908)

 

SYNONYMS
Eminaria nigropunctata, Acantharctia antemediata, Spilosoma cincticorpus, Spilosoma jacsoni, Spilosoma oligosticta,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 15
affiniola, auriculatus, diversata, dollmani, geminipuncta, intacta, investigatorum, maculosa, microsticta, nigropunctata, pardalina, schraderi, thomasi, whalleyi, wichgrafi.

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Central African Republic, DRCongo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Gossypium, Manihot esculenta,

Alpenus nigropunctata
Upperside (TZ)
 

Live (DRC)

 
Distribution Map
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