African Moths Gambia


     

Heraclia geryon (Fabricius, 1781)

 

SYNONYMS
Noctua geryon, Noctua euphemia, Xanthospilopteryx geryon, Eusemia nugatrix,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 50
abacata, aemulatrix, africana, aisha, annulata, atrifusa, atriventralis, aurantiaca, aurea, buchholzi, butleri, catori, contigua, deficiens, durbania, elongata, fatima, flavipennis, flavisignata, geryon, gruenbergi, hornimani, houyjensis, hypercompoides, interniplaga, jacksoni, jugans, karschii, kivuensis, limbomaculata, lomata, longipennis, medeba, monslunensis, mozambica, nandi, nigridorsa, nobela, pallida, pampata, pardalina, pentella, perdix, poggei, superba, terminatis, thruppi, viettei, xanthopyga, zenkeri,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Burundi, Congo, DRCongo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Unknown,

Heraclia geryon
Upperside
 
Upperside
 
Upperside
Heraclia geryon   Heraclia geryon   Heraclia geryon
Photo: Manchester Museum
 
Photo: Manchester Museum
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
Upperside
 
Upperside
 
Upperside (GM)
Heraclia geryon   Heraclia geryon   Heraclia geryon
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Underside (LR)
 
Underside (GM)
 
Type
Heraclia geryon   Heraclia geryon   Heraclia geryon
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
Live (GM)
 
Live (GM)
 
Distribution Map
Heraclia geryon   Heraclia geryon   Map
Photo D. Penney