African Moths Gambia


     

Aedia squamosa Wallengren, 1856

Scaly Alchemyst

SYNONYMS
Plusia inconclusa, Amphia discistriga, Anophia trispilosa, Aedia discistriga, Catephia scylla,

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 45
abrostolica, actinalis, albirena, banian, barrettae, chthonosoma, conradti, corticea, cretacea, cryptodisca, dargei, dipterygia, eburneana, eurymelas, heteropterygia, illegitima, iridocosma, konsonata, leucomelas, marmoreata, melanosoma, melanyptera, mesonephele, metaleuca, microcelis, nigrescens, oligomelas, pallididisca, pericyma, phantasma, plusioides, poliochroa, politzari, pyramidalis, sciras, scotosa, scylloides, serapis, sospita, squamosa, trachyptera, triphaenoides, virescens, xanthophaes, xerosomata,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, DRCongo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, La Reunion, Madagascar, Mozambique, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Sweet Potato,

 

Aedia squamosa
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (SL)
 
Upperside
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Photo © R. Butler
 
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © Oxford University Museum © R. Goff
Upperside (YE)
 
Underside (SL)
 
Larva (SL)
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Photo © University Museum Oslo. © W & J De Prins
 
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © R. Goff
Pupa (SL)
 
Live (RE)
 
Live (ZA)
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Photo © M. Bippus
 
Photo © H. Roland
 
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