African Moths Gambia


     

Acontia margaritata (Drury, 1872)

 

SYNONYMS
Acontia bohemanni, Acontia includens, Acontia monilifera, Acontia unio, Tarache margaritata,


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
South Africa, Zambia,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Unknown,

Acontia margaritata
Upperside
 
Upperside (ZA)
 
Upperside (ZA)
Acontia margaritata   Acontia margaritata   Acontia margaritata
Photo: Manchester Museum
 
Photo: Manchester Museum
 

Photo: Oxford Museum

Upperside
 

Upperside (ZM)

 
Upperside
Acontia margaritata   Acontia margaritata   Acontia margaritata
Photo: Oxford Museum

 
Photo: Oxford Museum

 
Photo: Oxford Museum

Underside
  Live (ZA)   Distribution map
Acontia margaritata
 
Acontia margaritata
 
Map
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: A. Liebenberg