African Moths Gambia


     

Lobesia vanillana (de Joannis, 1900)

 

SYNONYMS
Conchylis vanillana, Lobesia triancanthis,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 24
aeolopa, archaetypa, celeba, conferta, embrithes, harmonia, hecista, lecta, leucospilana, metachlora, oluducha, oxypercna, primaria, quadratica, rapta, scopifera, scorpiodes, semosa, stenaspis, stericta, talyana, vanillana, vittigera, xenosema,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Kenya, La Reunion, Madagascar, Mauritius, Nigeria, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Vanilla planifolia, Mangifera indica, Gleditsia triacanthos, Leptactina platyphylla, Ehretia cymosa, Solanum terminale, Solanum mauritianum, Flagellaria guineensis, Pleiocarpa pycnantha, Gomphia reticulata, Apodytes dimidiata, Tetracera litoralis, Trimeria grandifolia, Vepris fadenii,

Lobesia vanillana
Upperside (RE)
 

Upperside (SL)

 
Upperside (SL)
Lobesia vanillana   Lobesia vanillana   Lobesia vanillana
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Upperside (SL)
 
Underside (SL)
 
Live (SL
Lobesia vanillana   Lobesia vanillana   Lobesia vanillana
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Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © R. Goff
Live (RE)
 
Live (RE)
 
Distribution Map
Lobesia vanillana   Lobesia vanillana   Map
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