African Moths Gambia


     

Eublemma gayneri (Rothschild, 1901)

 

SYNONYMS
Mestleta gayneri, Eublemma beraudi,

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 195
acarodes, albicosta, albifascia, albivena, anachoresis, apicata, aurantiaca, baccalix, bolinia, carneotincta, ceresensis, cochyliodes, ecthaemata, eremochroa, exigua, flaviceps, flavicosta, fulvitermina, gayneri, gerti, guiera, lentirosea, mesophaea, miniparva, nigrivitta, odontophora, ornatula, parva, pennula, plumbosa, pulcherrima, pyrastis, pyrochroa, reducta, rivula, scitula, seminivea, staudingeri, stictilinea, thermobasis, tomentalis, trigramma, viettei, xanthocraspis,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Gambia, Kenya, Libya, Mauritania, Namibia. Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Acacia xanthophloea, Sorghum, Zea mays, Mangifera indica, Acacia nilotica, Zizyphus, Helianthus annuus, Eriobotega japonica, Insects :- Coccoidea, Asterolecanium pustulans, Maconellicoccus hirsutus,

Eublemma gayneri
Upperside (SL)
 
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (GM)
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Upperside (TZ)
 
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (ZW)
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Underside (SL)
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Live (GM)
 
Live (ZA)
 
Distribution Map
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