African Moths Gambia


     

Omphax plantaria Guenée, 1858

Smooth Emerald.

SYNONYMS
Agraptochlora marginata, Agraptochlora subaspersa, Agroptochlora rubriplaga, Pycnodontia apicata,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 17
bacoti, bara, bilobata, idonea, interfulgens, leucocraspeda, modesta, neglecta, nigricornis, particeps, plantaria, rhodocera, rigua, rubiceps, shorti, trilobata, vicinitaria,

 

DISTRIBUTION
DRCongo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Vangueria madagascariensis, Vangueria infausta,

 

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