African Moths Gambia


     

Amerila vidua (Cramer, 1780)

 

SYNONYMS
Phalaena vidua, Rhodogastria vidua,

 

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, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Unknown,

Amerila vidua
Upperside Male (CG)
 
Upperside Female (CG)
 
Upperside (NG)
Amerila vidua   Amerila vidua   Amerila vidua
Photo © E. Vingerhoedt
 
Photo © E. Vingerhoedt
 
Photo © Oxford University Museum © R. Goff
Upperside (NG)
 
 
Distribution Map
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Photo © Oxford University Museum © R. Goff