African Moths Gambia


     

Metarctia didyma Kiriakoff, 1959

 

SYNONYMS



SPECIES IN GENUS :- 93
brunneipennis, burra, cinnamonea, confederationis, didyma, diversa, flavicincta, flavivena, fulvia, haematica, jansei, lateritia, rubribasa, rubripuncta, rufescens, sarcosoma, sheljuzhkoi, tricolorana,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Central African Republic, Chad, DRCongo, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Leaf litter when newly hatched, Ipomoea eaten in latter stages.

Metarctia didyma
Upperside (SL)
 
Larva (SL)
 
Pupa (SL)
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Live (SL)
 
 
Distribution Map
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