African Moths Gambia


     

Utetheisa lotrix (Cramer, 1779)

 

SYNONYMS
Phalaena lotrix, Deiopeia lepida, Utetheisa socotrensis, Geometra lotrix

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 9
amhara, cruentata, diva, elata, Lactea, lotrix, pectinata, pulchella, pulchelloides,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Benin, DRCongo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, La Reunion, Madagascar, Nigeria, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Crotalaria incana, Crotalaria juncea, Crotalaria laburnifolia, Crotalaria micans, Dahlia, Heliotropium indicum, Oryza sativa, ,

Utetheisa lotrix
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