African Moths Gambia


     

Acontia guttifera Felder & Rogenhofer, 1871

Domino.

SYNONYMS
Tarache guttifera,


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, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Unknown,

 

Acontia guttifera
Upperside male
 
Upperside
 
Upperside (ZW)
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Photo: Manchester Museum
 

Photo: Oxford Museum

 
Photo: R. Butler
Upperside female
 
Upperside (ZA)
 
Upperside
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Photo: Manchester Museum
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: Manchester Museum
Underside male
 

Underside female (ZA)

  Live (ZA)
Acontia guttifera
 
Acontia guttifera
 
Acontia guttifera
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: H. Roland
Live (ZA)
 
Live (MZ)
 
Distribution Map
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Photo: J. Young
 
Photo: L. de Beer