African Moths Gambia


     

Maxera nigriceps (Walker, 1858)

Blackneck.

SYNONYMS
Renodes nigriceps,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 14
atripunctata, bathyscia, brachypecten, brunneoasperus, digoniata, euryptera, inclusa, laportei, lophocera, marchalii, nigriceps, nova, subocellata, zygia,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Botswana, Comoros, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Unknown,

Maxera nigriceps
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (ZW)
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Underside (GM)
 
Live (TZ)
 
Distribution map
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