African Moths Gambia


 

Temnora scitula (Holland, 1889)

 

SYNONYMS
Ocyto scitula,


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, Congo, DRCongo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Unknown,

Temnora scitula
Upperside (SL)
 

Upperside (UG)

 
Upperside ssp pindurensis (RW)
Temnora scitula   Temnora scitula   Temnora scitula
Photo: Oxford Museum
 

Photoi: T. Baron

 
Photo: Charaxes
Upperside
 
Upperside ssp stanislavi
 
Underside (CM)
Temnora scitula   Temnora scitula   Temnora scitula
Photo: SMCR - Sphingidae Museum, Czech Republic
 
Photo: SMCR - Sphingidae Museum, Czech Republic
 
Photo: A. Guyonnet
Live (CM)
 
 
Distribution Map
Temnora scitula     Map
Photo: A. Guyonnet