African Moths Gambia


     

Plegapteryx anomalus Herrich-Schäffer, 1856

Hooked Thorn.

SYNONYMS
Plegapteryx partita, Spidia primoti, Syndetodes segmenta, Plegapteryx titia, Plegapteryx viridis, Rhaniphopteryx grotesca, Plegapteryx camerunis,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 8
anomalus, hellingsi, obscura, peregrinus, prouti, purpurascens, sphingata, subsplendens,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Central African Republic, DRCongo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Terminalia ivorensis,

Plegapteryx anomalus
Upperside (SL)
 
Upperside (TZ)
 
Upperside (TZ)
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Plegapteryx anomalus
Photo © R. Revell
 
Photo: Copenhagen Museum
 
Photo: Copenhagen Museum
Upperside
 
Upperside (SL)
 
Underside (SL)
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Photo © Oxford University Museum © R. Goff
 
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © R. Goff
Live (LR)
 
Live (LR)
 
Distribution map
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Photo © M. Stanton
 
Photo © M. Stanton