African Moths Gambia


     

Metarctia lateritia Herrich-Schäffer, 1855

Laterite Matron.

SYNONYMS
Automolis lateritia, Hebena venosa, Metarctia aegrota, Automolis unicolor,


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, Burundi, Cameroon, DRCongo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Senecio,

Metarctia lateritia
Upperside (MW)
 
Upperside (ZA)
 
Upperside (TZ)
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Upperside (ZA)
 
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