African Moths Gambia


     

Eldana saccharina Walker, 1865

 

SYNONYMS
Ancylosidia conipyga,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 1
saccharina,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Benin, Cameroon, DRCongo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone. Somalia, South Africa, Uganda,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Inside grass stems, Zea mays, Saccharum officinarum, Panicum maximum, Sorghum arundinaceum, Pennisetum purpureum, Pennisetum polystachion, Andropogon gayanus, Rottboellia exaltata, Hyparrhenia rufa, Paspalum orbiculare, Imperata cylindrica, Cyperus papyrus,

Eldana saccharina
Upperside (SL)
 
Upperside (SL)
 
Upperside (SL)
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Underside (SL)
 
Larva (SL)
 
Larva (SL)
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Live (SL)
 
 
Distribution Map
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