African Moths Gambia


     

Epiphoria bauhiniae (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)

Southern Atlas.

SYNONYMS
Saturnia bauhiniae, Epiphora atharina, Attacus baumhiria,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 54
acuta, aequatorialis, albidus, antinorii, bauhiniae, bedoci, berliozi, boolana, boursini, brunnea, cadioui, congolana, cotei, elianae, eugeniae, feae, gabonensis, getula, hassoni, imperator, intermedia, kipengerensis, leae, lecerfi, lineata, lugardi, macedoi, macrops, magdalena, manowensis, marginimacula, mineti, modesta, murphyi, mythimnia, newporti, nubilosa, oberprieleri, pelosoma, perspicuus, ploetzi, pygmaea, rectifascia, rotunda, rufa, testenoirei, testouti, torquata, vacuna, vacunoides, vicina, victoria, werneri, weymeri,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Benin, Burkina Fasso, Cameroon, Chad, DRCongo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Ziziphus mucronata, Ziziphus mauritiana, Ziziphus spinachristi,

Epiphora bauhiniae
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside ssp atbarina
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Photo: Oxford Museum
Underside (GM)
 
Larva
 
Larva (GM)
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Cocoon (GM)
 

Photo: Kirby Wolfe
Pupa (GM)

 
Live (GM)
Epiphora bauhiniae
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Distribution Map
 
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