African Moths Gambia


     

Acontia porphyrea (Butler, 1898)

 

SYNONYMS
Tarache porphyrea,

 


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
Botswana, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Lycopersicon esculentum,

Acontia porphyrea
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (SO)
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