African Moths Gambia


     

Bastilla palpalis (Walker, 1865)

 

SYNONYMS
Ophiusa palpalis, Parallelia palpalis, Dysgonia plutonia, Dysgonia palpalis,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 19
adunca, arcifera, chiliensis, conjunctura, derogans, diffusa, erectata, goniophora, humilis, irregulata, isotima, joviana, macrorhyncha, multilineata, nesites, palpalis, proxima, triplocyma, trogosema,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Cameroon, DRCongo, Gabon, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Zambia,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Phyllanthus,

 

Bastilla palpalis
Upperside (ZM)
 

Upperside (ZM)

 
Upperside
Bastilla palpalis   Bastilla palpalis   Bastilla palpalis
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Photo © Oxford University Museum © R. Goff
 
Photo © Oxford University Museum © R. Goff
Upperside (GH)
 
 
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