African Moths Gambia


     

Phiala costipuncta Wallengren, 1860

 

SYNONYMS
Phiala xanthosoma, Phiala angola, Phiala inferior, Heteromorpha costipuncta, Dasychira atomaria, Stibolepis atomaria, Phiala ochritincta, Dasychira punctilinea,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 45
abyssinica, alba, albidorsata, aurivillii, bamenda, bergeri, bistrigata, costipuncta, crassistriga, cubicularis, dasypoda, esomelana, flavina, flavipennis, fuscordorsata, hologramma, incana, infuscata, longilinea, marshalli, maxima, nigrolineata, niveociliata, novemlineata, occidentalis, odites, parabiota, polita, postmedialis, pretoriana, pseudatomaria, pulverea, punctulata, sabalina, similis, simplex, specialis, subiridescens, subochracea, tanganyikae, ueleae, uelleburgensis, unistriga, venusta, wichgrafi,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, DRCongo, Gambia, Malawi, Namibia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Annona senegalensis, Fernandoa magnifica, Markhamia zanzibarica, Veronia,

Phiala costipuncta
Upperside (ZA)
 
Upperside (ZA)
 
Upperside (ZM)
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Upperside (ZM)
 
Live (ZA)
 
Live (DRC)
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Live (ZA)
 
Live (ZA)
 
Distribution Map
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