African Moths Gambia


     

Eublemma scitula, (Rambur, 1833)

Grey Eublemma.

SYNONYMS
Erastria scitula, Agrophila gibbosa, Euloastra cretacea, Nola exasperata, Erastria futilis, Coccidiphaga turati, Coccidiphaga scitula,

 

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, Chad, DRCongo, Egypt, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Malawi, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Insects:-
Coccoidea, Ceroplastes, Coccus hesperidium,

Eublemma scitula
Upperside (SO)
 
Upperside (SO)
 
Upperside (ZW)
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Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (TZ)
 
Upperside (KE)
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Underside (GM)
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