African Moths Gambia


     

Acontia umbrigera Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874

Shadowed Droplet.

SYNONYMS
Tarache umbrigera,


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, Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia,South Africa, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Hibiscus praeteritus,

 

Acontia umbrigera
Upperside (SO)
 
Upperside
 
Larva (ZA)
Acontia umbrigera   Acontia umbrigera   Acontia umbrigera
Photo: Oxford Museum
  Photo: Oxford Museum  

Photo: H. Roland

Live (BW)
 

 

 
Distribution map
Acontia umbrigera     Map
Photo: C. Sydes