African Moths Gambia


 

Gonimbrasia belina (Westwood, 1894)

Anomalous Emporer.

SYNONYMS
Saturnia belina, Imbrasia belina, Nudaurelia belina,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 39
affinis, alcestris, anna, balachowskyi, belina, birbiri, bubo, carnegiei, cocaulti, congolensis, conradsi, cytherea, desena, dissimilis, elgoniana, ellisoni, entebeensis, fletcheri, fucata, godarti, hecate, hoehnelii, kaguruensis, mariae, mbiziana, miranda, murphyiana, occidentalis, osiris, pales, persicutus, properubida, rectilineata, ruvuensis, tyrrhea, ufipana, ukerewensis, wahlbergii, zambesina,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Chad, DRCongo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Carissa grandiflora, Diospyros, Burkea africana, Copaifera, Mangifera indica, Pinus radiata, Colophospermum mopane, Ficus, Rhus lancea, Protorhus longifolia, Sclerocarya birrea, Salix, Sclerocarya caffra, Terminalia schweinfurthii, Terminalia velutina, Trema bracteolata,

Gonimbrasia belina
Upperside
 
Upperside
 
Upperside (ZM)
Gonimbrasia belina   Gonimbrasia belina   Gonimbrasia belina
Photo: Oxford Museum
  Photo: Oxford Museum  
Photo: C. Mateke
Eggs (NA)
 
Larva (NA)
 
Larva (ZA)
Gonimbrasia belina   Gonimbrasia belina   Gonimbrasia belina
Photo: I. Sondergaard
 
Photo: I. Sondergaard
 
Photo: H. Roland
Larva (ZA)
 
Live (ZA)
 
Live
Gonimbrasia belina
 
Gonimbrasia belina
 
Gonimbrasia belina
Photo: H. Roland
 
Photo: L. Smith
 
Photo: Kirby Wolfe
Live (UG)
 
Live (DRC)
 
Distribution Map
Gonimbrasia belina   Gonimbrasia belina   map
Photo: P. Waring
 
Photo: N. Voaden