African Moths Gambia


     

Lophorrhachia rubricorpus (Warren, 1898)

Eyed Emerald.

 

SYNONYMS
Oenospila rubricorpus, Lophorrhachia rubricornis, Hemithea plagiata, Lophorrhachia niveicristata,



SPECIES IN GENUS :- 12
aciculata, aenospila, atricristata, burdoni, insulsa, mutanda, oerrhoda, palliata, restricta, rhathyma, rubricorpus, usiura,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Maerua hoehnelii, Schinus molle,

 

Lophorrhachia rubricorpus
Upperside (RW)
 
Upperside (ZW)
 
Live (ZA)
Lophorrhachia rubricorpus   Lophorrhachia rubricorpus  
Lophorrhachia rubricorpus
Photo © Charaxes
 
Photo © R. Butler
 
Photo © Q. Grobler
Live (ZA)
 
 
Distribution map
Lophorrhachia rubricorpus     Map
Photo © Q. Grobler