African Moths Gambia


     

Busseola fusca (Fuller, 1901)

Maize Stalk Borer.

SYNONYMS
Sesamia fusca, Busseola sorghicida,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 10
convexilimba, fusca, fuscantis, mesophaea, obliquifascia, pallidicosta, phaia, quadrata, rufidorsata, segeta,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, DRCongo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Zea mays, Sorghum arundinaceum, Pennisetum purpureum, Eucalyptus grandis, Saccharum officinarum,

 

Busseola fusca
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (ZA)
 

Upperside (GM)

Busseola fusca   Busseola fusca   Busseola fusca
Photo: R. Butler
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
 
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