African Moths Gambia


     

Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766)

Black Cutworm, Dark Sword Grass.

SYNONYMS
Phalaena ipsilon, Agrotis aureola, Agrotis bipars, Agrotis frivola, Phalaena idonea, Bombyx spinula, Noctua suffusa, Agrotis aneituma,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 65
alluaudi, caffra, denticulosa, hemileuca, ipsilon, oliveata, segetum, semiomelas, spinifera, trux,


DISTRIBUTION
Algeria, Angola, Comoros, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ivory Coast, La Reunion, Libya, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Polyphagous,

Agrotis ipsilon

Upperside (ZW)

 

Live (MA)

 
Live (ZA)
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Photo: R. Butler
 
Photo: HJ. Smit
 
Photo: A. Liebenberg
 
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