African Moths Gambia


 

Imbrasia epimethea (Drury, 1772)

 

SYNONYMS
Phalaena attacus epimethea, Imbrasia nadari, Imbrasia epimedea, Imbrasia crameri, Imbrasia paradoxa, Imbrasia diomede, Bunaea dorcas, Bombyx nicitans,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 10
afzelii, allardi, butyospermi, epimethea, ertli, longicaudata, obscura, orientalis, senegalensis, truncata,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, DRCongo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Theobroma cacao, Funtumia elastica, Funtumia africana, Holarrhena floribunda, Petersianthus macrocarpus, Petersianthus africanus, Albizia, Ricinodendron heudelotii, Acacia lahai, Acacia decurrens, Anona senegalensis, Terminalia, Bauhinia, Brachystegia spiciformis, Canarium schweinfurthii, Maesopsis eminii, Newtonia,

Imbrasia epimethea
Upperside (RW)
 
Upperside (GA)
 
Upperside
Imbrasia epimethea   Imbrasia epimethea   Imbrasia epimethea
Photo: Charaxes
  Photo: JL. Albert  
Photo: Oxford Museum
Upperside
 
Upperside
 
Underside (GA)
Imbrasia epimethea   Imbrasia epimethea   Imbrasia epimethea
Photo: Oxford Museum
Larvae (DRC)
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
Larva (DRC)
 
Photo: JL. Albert
Larva (CM)
Imbrasia epimethea
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Photo: P. Latham
Live (CM)
 
Photo: P. Latham
Live (UG)
 
Photo: A. Guyonnet
Live (CAR)
Imbrasia epimethea
 
Imbrasia epimethea
 
Imbrasia epimethea
Photo: A. Guyonnet

 
Photo: B. Hancock
Distribution Map
 
Photo: N. Voaden

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