African Moths Gambia


     

Balacra pulchra Aurivillius,1892.

Silky Matron.

SYNONYMS
Balacra glagoessa,

 

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
Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, DRCongo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Unknown,

Balacra pulchra
Upperside (GA)
 
Upperside
 

Upperside (TZ)

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Underside (GA)
 
Live (CM)
 
Live (DRC)
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