African Moths Gambia


     

Balacra herona (Druce, 1887)

 

SYNONYMS
Anace herona

 

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
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, DRCongo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Unknown,

 

Balacra herona
Upperside (UG)
 
Upperside (GH)
 
Underside (CM)
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