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Rhanidophora phedonia (Stoll, 1871)

Short Snouted Dice.

SYNONYMS
Bombyx phedonia,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 13
aethiops, agrippa, albigutta, aurantiaca, cinctigutta, enucleata, flava, flavigutta, odontophora, phedonia, piguerator, ridens, semipunctata,

DISTRIBUTION
Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Thunbergia alata, Thunbergia capensis, Thunbergia podoensis, Thunbergia atriplicifolia,

 

 

Rhanidophora phedonia
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