African Moths Gambia


     

Balacra affinis/daphaena (Rothschild, 1910)

These two species are only seperable by genetalia dissection, not external features.

SYNONYMS

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 27
affinis, alberici, basilewskyi, batesi, belga, caeruleifascia, compsa, daphaena, diaphana, elegans, flava, flavimacula, fontainei, furva, guillemei, haemalea, herona, humphreyi, jaensis, kupensis, monotonia, nigripennis, preussi, pulchra, rattrayi, rubricincta, rubrostriata,

 

DISTRIBUTION (combined)
Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, DRCongo, Gabon, Niger, Nigeria, Uganda,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Unknown,

 

Balacra affinis/daphaena
Live (UG)
 
Live (CM)
 
Live (NG)
Balacra affinis   Balacra affinis   Balacra affinis
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Underside (CM)
 
 
Distribution Map
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