African Moths Gambia


     

Pericyma mendax (Walker, 1858)

Brown Shades.

SYNONYMS
Alamis mendax, Dugaria mendax, Dugaria clipes, Homoptera delineosa, Homoptera disjuncta, Homoptera scandulata, Homoptera glaucans var lignicolora, Pericyma polygramma,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 17
andrefana, atrifusa, basalis, caffraria, deducta, madagascana, mauritanica, mendax, metaleuca, minyas, pratti, schreieri, squalens, subtusplaga, umbrina, viettei, vinsonii,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Botswana, Burkina Faso, Congo, DRCongo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, La Reunion, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Acacia mearnsii, Citrus, Senegalia (Acacia) caffra, Vachellia (Acacia) karroo, Acacia sassa, Vachellia (Acacia) sieberiana,

Pericyma mendax
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
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Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (TZ)

Pericyma mendax

 

Pericyma mendax

  Pericyma mendax
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Underside (GM)
 
Live (GM)
 
Live (GM)
Pericyma mendax
 
Pericyma mendax
 
Pericyma mendax
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Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © R. Goff
Live (ZA)
 
Live (SZ)
 
Distribution Map
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