African Moths Gambia


     

Micralarctia punctulatum (Wallengren, 1860)

 

SYNONYMS
Spilosoma punctulata, Spilosoma auricinctum, Spilosoma nivaria, Diacrisa nyassama, Amsacta evadne, Spilosoma euproctina, Spilosoma edlingeri, Diacrisa albescens, Estigmene schraderi.

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 5
australis, punctulatum, semipura, stictographa, toulgoeti,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, DRCongo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Ipomoea batatas, Gossypium, Oryza sativa,

 

Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (ZW)
Micralarctia punctulatum   Micralarctia punctulatum   Micralarctia punctulatum
Photo © R. Butler
 
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © R. Butler
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (TZ)
 
Upperside (TZ
Micralarctia punctulatum   Micralarctia punctulatum   Micralarctia punctulatum
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © University Museum Oslo. © W & J De Prins
 
Photo © University Museum Oslo. © W & J De Prins
Underside (GM)
 
Larva (GM)
 
Live (GM)
Micralarctia punctulatum   Micralarctia punctulatum   Micralarctia punctulatum
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © R. Goff
Live (DRC)
 
 
Distribution Map
Micralarctia punctulatum     Map
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