African Moths Gambia


     

Acontia wahlbergi Wallengren, 1856

Wahlberg's Droplet.

SYNONYMS
Acontia cyanocraspis, Terache nephata, Acontia urbani, Tarache vahlbergi, Terache wahlbergi,


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
Botswana, Burkina Fasso, Cameroon, DRCongo, Eritrea, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Gossypium,

 

Acontia wahlbergi
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside
Acontia wahlbergi   Acontia wahlbergi   Acontia wahlbergi
 
 
Photo: Manchester Museum
Upperside (GM)
 

Upperside (GM)

 
Upperside (ZW)
Acontia wahlbergi   Acontia wahlbergi   Acontia wahlbergi

Photo: Manchester Museum

 


 

Photo: R. Butler

Underside (GM)
 
Live (ZA)
 
Live (GM)
Acontia wahlbergi
 
Acontia wahlbergi
 
Acontia wahlbergi
 
Photo: H. Roland
 
 
Distribution map
 
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