African Moths Gambia


     

Pardasena virgulana (Mabille, 1880)

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SYNONYMS
Sarrothripa virgulana, Giaura nigriscripta,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 14
atmocyma, atripuncta, beauvallonensis, fletcheri, lativia, melanosticta, minorella, miochroa, nolalana, punctata, punctilinea, roeselioides, verna, virgulana,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Kenya, La Reunion, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Acacia xanthophloea, Acacia tortilis, Acacia karoo, Acacia nilotica, Cajanus cajan, Dombeya bagshawei, Flemingia grahamiana, Gossypium, Ipomoea, Lantana camara, Macadamia,

pardasena virgulana
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (SL)
 
Upperside (SL)
Pardasena virgulana   pardasena virgulana   pardasena virgulana
Photo: R. Butler
 
 
Upperside (SL)
 
Underside (SL)
 
Live (ZA)
pardasena virgulana   pardasena virgulana   pardasena virgulana
 
 
Photo: A. Liebenberg
Live (RE)
 
Live dark morph (ZA)
 
Distribution Map
Pardasena virgulana   pardasena virgulana   Map
Photo: M. Bippus
 
Photo: A. Liebenberg