African Moths Gambia


     

Ctenoplusia limbirena (Guenée, 1852)

Silver U-Tail.

SYNONYMS
Plusia limbirena,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 19
accentifera, amydra, asteia, aurisuta, camptogramma, dargei, dorfmeisteri, edora, euchroa, euchroides, fracta, furcifera, limbirena, perispomena, phocea, polycampta, polyteles, rhodographa, scoteina,


DISTRIBUTION
Botswana, Cameroon, Comoros, DRCongo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, La Reunion, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Polyphagous,

Ctenoplusia limbirena
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (RW)
 
Live (DRC)
Ctenoplusia limbirena   Ctenoplusia limbirena   Ctenoplusia limbirena
Photo: R. Butler
 
Photo: Charaxes
 
Photo: N. Voaden
Live (DRC)
 
 
Distribution map
Ctenoplusia limbirena   m   map
Photo: N. Voaden