African Moths Gambia


     

Metarctia rufescens Walker, 1855

 

 

SYNONYMS
Hexaneura maculifera,


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

 

DISTRIBUTION
Burundi, Congo, DRCongo, Gabon, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Tradescanthia, grass roots, leaf litter,

Metarctia rufescens
Upperside (ZA)
 
Upperside
 
Live (ZA)
Metarctia rufescens   Metarctia rufescens  
Metarctia rufescens
Photo © Oxford University Museum © R. Goff
 
Photo © Oxford University Museum © R. Goff
 
Photo © A. Liebenberg
Live (ZA)
 
Live (ZA)
 
Live (TZ)
Metarctia rufescens   Metarctia rufescens   Metarctia rufescens
Photo © A. Liebenberg
 
Photo © H. Roland
 
Photo © M. Grimm
 
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