African Moths Gambia


     

Acontia discoidea Hopffer, 1857

 

SYNONYMS

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 173
antica, aurelia, basifera, caeruleopicta, caffraria, carnescens, discoidea, dispar, ectorrida, glaphyra, gradata, guttifera, hortensis, imitatrix, insocia, lucida, luteola, margaritata, melaphora, natalis, niphogona, nubila, nubilata, opalinoides, porphyrea, psaliphora, tinctilis, transfigurata, trychaenoides, umbrigera, wahlbergi,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Botswana, DRCongo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Abutilon, Hibiscus praeteritus, Sida,

 

Acontia discoidea
Upperside
 

Upperside

 
Live (ZA)
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Photo: Manchester Museum
 
Photo: Manchester Museum
 
Photo: H. Roland
Live (ZA)
 
 

Distribution Map
Acontia discoidea     Map
Photo: A. Liebenberg