African Moths Gambia


     

Acontia imitatrix Wallengren, 1856

Golden Droplet.

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, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Unknown,

Acontia imitatrix
Upperside male (GM)
 

Upperside (SL)

 
Upperside (GM)
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Upperside female (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Underside male (GM)
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Underside female (GM)
 
Live male (GM)
 
Live (GM)
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Live female (ZA)
 
 
Distribution Map
Acontia imitatrix     Map
Photo: H. Roland