African Moths Gambia


 

Temnora pylas (Cramer, 1779)

Barred Yellow-Winged Temnora.

SYNONYMS
Sphinx pylas,


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
Sierra Leone, South Africa, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Anthospermum aethiopicum, Leucas milanjiana,

Temnora pylas
Upperside
 

Upperside

 
Upperside (ZA)
Temnora pylas   Temnora pylas   Temnora pylas
Photo: Oxford Museum
 

Photo: Oxford Museum

 
Photo: Oxford Museum
Upperside
 
Upperside
 
Upperside ssp exilis
Temnora pylas   Temnora pylas   Temnora pylas
Photo: SMCR - Sphingidae Museum, Czech Republic
 
Photo: SMCR - Sphingidae Museum, Czech Republic
 
Photo: SMCR - Sphingidae Museum, Czech Republic
Live (ZA)
 
 
Distribution Map
Temnora pylas     Map
Photo: J. Heyns