African Moths Gambia


     

Pterophorus rhyparias (Meyrick, 1908)

 

SYNONYMS
Alucita rhyparias, Alucita centrocrates, Aciptilia viettei,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 19
africanus, albidus, bacteriopa, baliolus, candidalis, ceraunia, cleronoma, dallastai, ischnodactyla, lamottei, lampra, legrandi, lindneri, massai, niveodactyla, rhyparias, spissa, uzungwe, virgo,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Cameroon, DRCongo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Unknown,

Pterophorus rhyparias
Upperside (TZ)
 
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (TZ)
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Upperside (TZ)
 
 
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