African Moths Gambia


     

Ophiusa mejanesi (Guenée, 1852)

Variable Drab.

SYNONYMS
Ophoides mejanesi, Ophoides tettensis, Ophiodes wahlbergi, Ophisma expedita, Trichanua mejanesi, Anua mejanesi,

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 48
anomala, cancellata, conspicienda, coronata, dargei, david, davidiodes, despecta, dianaris, digona, dilecta, finifascia, flavocillata, gonoptera, grandidieri, hopei, hypoxantha, inangulata, legendrei, mabillei, maculata, maraisi, mejanesi, melaconisia, mimetica, obsolescens, overlaeti, pelor, pseudotirhaca, punctiquadrata, rectificata, recurvata, reducta, rogata, rufescens, salita, selenaris, simplex, subdiversa, tirhaca, tumiditermina, umbrilinea, verecunda, verecundoides, violascens, violisparsa, waterloti, xylochroa,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Botswana, DRCongo, Eritrea, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Anogeissus latifolia, Eucalyptus, Quisqualis indica,

Ophiusa mejanesi
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside
 
Upperside (ZM)
Ophiusa mejanesi   Ophiusa mejanesi   Ophiusa mejanesi
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © Oxford University Museum © R. Goff
 
Photo © Oxford University Museum © R. Goff
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (ZM)
 
Upperside (TZ)
Ophiusa mejanesi   Ophiusa mejanesi   Ophiusa mejanesi
Photo © R. Butler
 
Photo © Oxford University Museum © R. Goff
 
Photo © University Museum Oslo. © W & J De Prins
Underside (GM)
 
Live (GM)
 
Live (SL)
Ophiusa mejanesi   Ophiusa mejanesi   Ophiusa mejanesi
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © R. Goff
Live (NA)
 
 
Distribution Map
Ophiusa mejanesi     Map
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