African Moths Gambia


     

Sesamia calamistis Hampson, 1910

 

SYNONYMS
Sesamia mediastriga, Sesamia vuteria,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 49
albicolor, albivena, ammopoecilma, botanephaga, calamistis, capensis, congoensis, coniota, cretica, enanouae, epunctifera, firmata, fuscifrontia, geyri, incerta, inferens, jansei, kouilouensis, louyaensis, madagascariensis, mediostriga, mesosticha, monodi, natalensis, nigritarsis, nonagrioides, oriaula, pennipuncta, penniseti, plagiographa, poephaga, roseoflammata, roumeti, royi, rubritincta, rufescens, sabulosa, sciagrapha, simplaria, steniptera, stictica, sylvata, taenioleuca, tosta, typhae, vanharteni, veronica, viettei, wiltshirei,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Comoros, DRCongo, Eritrea, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, La Reunion, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Pennisetum plystachion, Pennisetum purpureum, Andropogon gayanus, Saccharium officinarum, Sorghum arundinaceum, Panicum Maximum, Paspalumorbiculare, Triticum vulgare, Zea mays,

Sesamia calamistis
Upperside (ZW
 
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (RE)
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Photo: R. Butler
 
Photo: R. Butler
 
Photo: M. Bippus
Upperside (GM)
 
Underside (GM)
 
Live (RE)
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Photo: M. Bippus
Live (GM)
 
 
Distribution Map
Sesamia calamistis     Map