African Moths Gambia


     

Scopula pulchellata (Fabricius, 1794)

 

SYNONYMS
Phalaena pulchelata, Craspedia rufinubes,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 280
accentuata, acentra, adelpharia, argentidisca, bigeminata, caesaria, curvimargo, demissaria, deserta, disparata, donovani, fimbrilineata, haemaleata, horiochroea, inscriptata, internata, internataria, lactaria, latitans, lubricata, luridata, minoa, minorata, natalica, nemorivagata, nepheloperas, nigrinotata, opicata, ossicolor, penultima, pulchellata, pyrrhochra, quadrifasciata, ruficolor, rufisalsa, sagittilinea, sanguinisecta, serena, sincera, sinnaria, spoliata, straminea, sublobata, subobliquata, timia, tornisecta, transsecta, tricommata,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Botswana, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Polyphagous, Plumbago auriculata, Plumbago capensis,

 

Scopula pulchellata
Upperside (SO)
 
Upperside (SO)
 
Live (SZ)
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Photo © Oxford University Museum © R. Goff
 
Photo © Oxford University Museum © R. Goff
 
Photo © K. Braun
 
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