African Moths Gambia


     

Epilacydes scita (Walker, 1865)

 

SYNONYMS
Estigmene scita, Aloa scita,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 5
bayoni, pseudoscita, scita, simulans, unilinea,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Cameroon, DRCongo, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Grasses, Terminalia ivorensis,

Epilacydes scita
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
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Upperside
 
Underside (GM)
 
Live (KE)
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Live (GM)
 
Live (GM
 
Distribution Map
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Map
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