African Moths Gambia


     

Sesamia nonagrioides (Lefèbvre, 1827)

 

SYNONYMS
Cossus nonagrioides, Sesamia gracilis, Sesamia hesperica, Nonagria sacchari,

 

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
Algeria, Egypt, Gambia, Kenya, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan, Western Sahara,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Polyphageous, Zea mays,

Sesamia nonagrioides
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside
 
Underside (GM)
Sesamia nonagrioides   Sesamia nonagrioides   Sesamia nonagrioides
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
 
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