African Moths Gambia


     

Isturgia deerraria (Walker, 1861)

 

SYNONYMS
Tephrina deerraria, Tephrina dissocia, Tephrina nemorivaga, Asphilodes occupata,

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 36
albogrisea, arenularia, arizela, arizeloides, averyi, catalaunaria, comorensis, contexta, deerraria, devecta, disputaria, dukuduku, exerraria, exospilata, exustaria, geminata, griveaudi, inaequivirgaria, kiellandi, malesignaria, megasaccus, modestaria, netta, perplexa, presbitaria, prionogyna, pulinda, pygmaeata, quadriplaga, sakalava, spissata, sublimbata, supergressa, triseriata, univirgaria, virescens,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Chad, Comoros, DRCongo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Vachellia (Acacia) tortilis, Vachellia (Acacia) karroo, Vachellia (Acacia) nilotica, Peltophorum africanum, Acacia mearnsii, Pterocelastrus tricuspidatus,

Isturgia deerraria
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (GM)
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Photo © R. Butler
 
Photo © R. Butler
 
Photo © R. Goff
Upperside (TZ)
 
Upperside
 
Upperside
Isturgia deerraria   Isturgia deerraria   Isturgia deerraria
Photo © University Museum Oslo. © W & J De Prins
 
Photo © Oxford University Museum © R. Goff
 
Photo © Oxford University Museum © R. Goff
Upperside (GM)
 
Underside (GM)
 

Larva (NA)

Isturgia deerraria
 
Isturgia deerraria
 
Isturgia deerraria
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © H. Roland
Live (GM)
 
Live (ZA)
 
Distribution map
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Photo © A. Liebenberg