African Moths Gambia


 

Temnora fumosa (Walker, 1856)

Smokey Temnora.

SYNONYMS
Zonilia fumosa,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 67
albilinea, angulosa, argyropeza, atrofasciata, avinoffi, bafutiana, bouyeri, burdoni, camerounensis, crenulata, curtula, dierli, elegans, elisabethae, engis, eranga, fumosa, funebris, grandidieri, griseata, hirsutus, hollandi, iapygoides, inornatum, kaguru, leighi, livida, magambana, marginata, masungai, merukilia, mirabilis, murina, namaqua, natalis, neodentata, nephele, nitidia, ntombi, occidentalis, orientalis, palpalis, peckoveri, plagiata, probata, prokopci, pseudopylas, pylades, pylas, radiata, rattrayi, reutlingeri, robertsoni, rotundus, rungwe, sardanus, scheveni, scitula, spiritus, stevensi, subapicalis, subrubra, swynnertoni, turlini, uluguru, wollastoni, zantus,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Burkina Fasso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, DRCongo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Camelina, Commelina africana, Morinda morindoides, Morinda lucida, Rhaphiostylis beninensis,

Temnora fumosa
Upperside
 

Upperside

 
Upperside
Temnora fumosa   Temnora fumosa   Temnora fumosa
Photo: Oxford Museum
 

Photo: Oxford Museum

 
Photo: Oxford Museum
Upperside (SL)
 
Upperside (SL)
 
Upperside
Temnora fumosa   Temnora fumosa   Temnora fumosa
 
 
Photo: SMCR - Sphingidae Museum, Czech Republic
Upperside
 
Underside (SL)
 
Live (UG)
Temnora fumosa   Temnora fumosa   Temnora fumosa
Photo: SMCR - Sphingidae Museum, Czech Republic
 
 
Photo: P. Waring
Live (TZ)
 
Live (UG)
 
Distribution Map
Temnora fumosa   Temnora fumosa   Map
Photo: D. Bygott
 
Photo: B. Hancock