African Moths Gambia


     

Amerila puella (Fabricius, 1793)

 

SYNONYMS
Bombyx puella, Rhodogastria uniformis,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 37
accra, affinis, aldabrensis, androfusca, bauri, bipartita, brunnea, bubo, carneola, castanea, catinca, femina, fennia, fuscivena, howardi, kiellandi, leucoptera, lineolata, lupia, luteibarba, madagascarensis, magnifica, makadara, mulleri, nigrivenosa, nigroapicalis, niveivitrea, phaedra, puella, roseomarginata, rothi, rufifemur, shimbaensis, syntomina, thermochroa, vidua, vitrea,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Cameroon, DRCongo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Unknown,

Amerila puella
Upperside ssp invidua (SL)
 
Underside (SL)
 

Live (SL)

Amerila puella   Amerila puella   Amerila puella
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © R. Goff
 
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