African Moths Gambia


     

Acontia basifera Walker, 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
Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Gossypium,

Acontia basifera
Upperside (SO)
 

Upperside (GM)

 
Distribution Map
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