African Moths Gambia


     

Leucania loreyi (Duponchel, 1827)

False Army Worm, Cosmipolitan.

SYNONYMS
Noctua loreyi, Mythimna loreyi, Leucania caricis, Leucania collecta, Leucania curvula, Leucania denotata, Leucania designata, Leucania exterior, Leucania thoracica,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 50
acrepex, acutangulata, aedesiusi, albimacula, argyrina, atrinota, bertha, bilineata, borbonensis, carneotincta, citrinotata, clavifera, confluens, cupreata, curvula, cyprium, exclamans, fasilidasi, fissifascia, hypnocapna, incompleta, insularis, insulicola, joannisi, leucogramma, leucosphaenoides, longipennis, loreyi, mediolacteata, melanostrota, miasticta, murcida, palaestinae, patrizii, pectinata, perstriata, phaea, pinna, ptyonophora, punctosa, punctulata, quadricuspidata, respersa, reticulata, rufescenoides, ruptilinea, sicula, subcrapex, tenebra, zeae,


DISTRIBUTION
Algeria, Central African Republic, DRCongo, Egypt, Ertirea, Ethopia, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Sierra Leone, Somalia. South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Grasses, Oryza sativa, Saccharum, Sorghum, Triticum aestivum, Allium cepa, Zea mays,

 

Leucania loreyi
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
Leucania loreyi   Leucania loreyi   Leucania loreyi
 
 
Upperside (ZA)
 
Underside (GM)
 
Live (ZA)
Leucania loreyi   Leucania loreyi   Leucania loreyi
Photo: T. Baron
 
 
Photo: A. Roberts
Live (GM)
 
 
Distribution Map
Leucania loreyi     Map