African Moths Gambia


     

Chiasmia brongusaria (Walker, 1860)

Variable Peacock.

SYNONYMS
Epione brongusaria, Tephrina incessaria, Tephrina exsecutaria, Plasiana miliaria, Tephrinopsis sabulifera, Tephrina oleochroa, Semiothisa uvidaria,


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
Botswana, DRCongo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Vachellia (Acacia) karroo, Vachellia (Acacia) sieberiana, Vachellia (Acacia) xanthophloea,

Chiasmia brongusaria
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside
 
Upperside
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Live (ZA)
 
Live (ZA)
 
Distribution Map
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