African Moths Gambia


     

Chiasmia procidata (Guenée, 1858)

Bleached Peacock.

SYNONYMS
Osteodes procidata, Semiothisa fumida, Asphilades semispurcata,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 175
affinis, ammodes, angolaria, assimilis, brongusaria, butaria, clavifrons, confuscata, contaminata, conturbata, costicommata, crassata, curvilineata, deceptrix, feraliata, fulvimargo, fulvisparsa, furcata, geminilinea, grimmia, grisescens, gyliura, inaequilinea, inconspicua, inquinata, interrupta, johnstoni, kilimanjarensis, majestica, multistrigata, natalensis, normata, nubilata, obliquilineata, parallacta, plutocrypsis, procidata, puerilis, rectilinea, rectistriaria, rhabdophora, semialbida, simplicilinea, streniata, subcurvaria, subvaria, sudanata, suriens, tecnium, trinotata, trizonaria, turbulentata, umbrata, umbratilis, unifilata, warreni,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, DRCongo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Vachellia (Acacia) karoo, Rhus lanceolata, Vachellia (Acacia) sieberiana,

Chiasmia procidata
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (SO)
 
Upperside (SO)
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