African Moths Gambia


     

Metarctia flavivena Hampson, 1901.

Veined Matron.

 

SYNONYMS
Metarctia zegina, Metarctia rothschildi, Metarctia panyamana, Automolis flavivena,


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

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Botswana, DRCongo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Bidens pilosa, Dahlia, Sonchus,

Metarctia flavivena
Upperside (MZ)
 
Upperside (MZ)
 
Upperside (MW)
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Upperside (TZ)
 
Live (DRC)
 
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