African Moths Gambia


     

Amerila Vitrea Plötz, 1880

SYNONYMS
Pelochyta vidua, Rhodogastria vitrea

 

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
Angola, Benin, Burkino Fasso, Burundi, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, DRCongo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Unknown

Amerila vitrea
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (TZ)
 
Upperside (CG)
Amerila vitrea   Amerila vitrea   Amerila vitrea
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © University Museum Oslo. © W & J De Prins
 
Photo © E. Vinderhoedt
Upperside (CG)
 
Upperside (ZW)
 

Upperside (GM)

Amerila vitrea   Amerila vitrea   Amerila vitrea

Photo © E.Vinderhoedt

 
Photo © R. Butler
 

Photo © R. Goff

Underside (GM)
  Live 'frothing' (CM)   Live (UG)
Amerila vitrea
 
Amerila vitrea
 
Amerila vitrea
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © A. Guyonnet
 
Photo © P. Waring
Live (DRC)
 
Live (ZA)
 
Distribution Map
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Photo © N. Voaden
 
Photo © Q. Grobler