African Moths Gambia


     

Polydesma umbricola Boisduval, 1833

 

SYNONYMS
Coenipeta collutrix, Polydesma landula,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 5
boarmoides, collusoria, hildebrandti, scriptilis, umbricola,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, DRCongo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Albizia lebbeck, Albizia saman, Acacia, Pithecollobium dulce,

 

Polydesma umbricola
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (TZ)
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Upperside (GM)
 
Underside (GM)
 
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Distribution Map
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