African Moths Gambia


     

Tathorhynchus exsiccata (Walker, 1857)

 

SYNONYMS
Spintherops exsiccata, Platysenta angustiorata, Scopula vinctalis,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 7
camerounica, exsiccata, homogyna, leucobasis, nigra, plumbea, troberti,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Algeria, Botswana, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tunisia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Medicago sativa, Spartium junceum, Indigofera tinctoria,

Tathorhynchus exsiccata
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (ZA)
 
Upperside (TZ)
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Photo © T. Baron
 
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Underside (GM)
 
Live (ZA)
 
Live (ZA)
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Photo © A. Liebenberg
 
Photo © A. Liebenberg
Live (BW)
 
Live (ZA)
 
Distribution map
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Photo © H. Roland