African Moths Gambia


 

Lobobunaea phaedusa (Drury, 1872)

 

SYNONYMS
Phalaena attacus phaedusa, Lobobunaea elegans, Lobobunaea laurae, Lobobunaea thomsoni, Antheraea laestrygon,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 25
acetes, acuta, angasana, ansorgei, doogii, equatorialis, erythrotes, falcatissima, goodii, jokineni, jolyi, kagera, klemettii, keuhnei, lemairei, melanoneura, melichari, niepelti, phaedusa, rosea, saturnus, sorangei, tanganyikae, turlini, vingerhoedti,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Burkina Fasso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, DRCongo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Anona senegalensis, Prunus domestica, Psidium guajava, Rosa, Croton mubango, Vitex madiensis, Acacia auriculiformis, Crossopteryx febrifuga, Sclerocroton cornutus, Dacryodes edulis, Sapium ellipticum, Crossopteryx febrifuga,

Lobobunaea phaedusa
Upperside (GA)
 
Upperside
 
Upperside
Lobobunaea phaedusa   Lobobunaea phaedusa   Lobobunaea phaedusa
Photo: JL. Albert
 

Photo: Oxford Museum

 
Photo: Oxford Museum
Upperside ssp. christyi
 
Upperside ssp. christyi
 
Underside (GA)
Lobobunaea phaedusa   Lobobunaea phaedusa   Lobobunaea phaedusa
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: JL. Albert
Larva (DRC)
 
Live (CM)
 
Lice (DRC)
Lobobunaea phaedusa   Lobobunaea phaedusa   Lobobunaea phaedusa
Photo: P. Latham
 
Photo: A. Guyonnet
 
Photo: N. Voaden
 
Distribution Map
 
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