African Moths Gambia


     

Spilosoma curvilinea Walker, 1855

 

SYNONYMS
Diacrisia obsoletilinea, Estigmene senegalensis,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 46
abbottii, albiventre, alticola, atrivenata, batesi, baxteri, bipartita, brunneomixta, buryi, castelli, clausnaumanni, crossi, curvilinea, dufranei, euryphlebia, gynephaea, hercules, heterogenea, holoxantha, immaculata, jordani, karschi, latiradiata, leighi, maniemae, mediocinerea, mediopunctata, melanimon, metaleuca, nigrocastanea, nigrocincta, nivea, nyasana, occidens, pales, pauliani, pellucida, penultimum, pseudambrensis, quadrimaculata, rava, sinefascia, sulphurea, tenuivena, togoensis, turlini,

 

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

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Dioscorea, Zea mays, Rubus, Theobroma cacao,

Spilosoma curvilinea
Upperside (UG)
 
Upperside (NG)
 
Distribution Map
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