African Moths Gambia


     

Thyretes hippotes (Cramer, 1780)

Equine Maiden.

SYNONYMS
Sphinx hippotes


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 9
caffra, cooremani, hippotes, montana, monteiroi, negus, signivenis, trichaetiformis, ustjuzhanini,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, South Africa,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Pentzia incana

Thyretes hippotes
Upperside (ZA)
 

Upperside

 
Upperside
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