African Moths Gambia


     

Parachalciope benitenis (Holland, 1894)

 

SYNONYMS
Grammodes benitensis,

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 14
agonia, albifissa, benitensis, binaria, deltifera, emiplaneta, euclidicola, inornata, longiplaga, mahura, mixta, monoplaneta, rotundata, trigonometrica,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Burkina Fasso, Cameroon, DRCongo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Mauritania, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Leguminosae,

 

Parachalcipoe benitensis
Upperside
 
Upperside
 
Upperside
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Upperside
 
Upperside
 
Upperside (TZ)
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Live (GH)
 
 
Distribution Map
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