African Moths Gambia


     

Amerila Vitrea Plötz, 1880

SYNONYMS
Pelochyta vidua, Rhodogastria vitrea

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 37
accra, affinis, aldabrensis, androfusca, bauri, bipartita, brunnea, bubo, carneola, castanea, catinca, femina, fennia, fuscivena, howardi, kiellandi, leucoptera, lineolata, lupia, luteibarba, madagascarensis, magnifica, makadara, mulleri, nigrivenosa, nigroapicalis, niveivitrea, phaedra, puella, roseomarginata, rothi, rufifemur, shimbaensis, syntomina, thermochroa, vidua, vitrea.

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Benin, Burkino Fasso, Burundi, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, DRCongo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Unknown

Amerila vitrea
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (CG)
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Photo: E. Vinderhoedt
Upperside (CG)
 
Upperside (GM)
 

Underside (GM)

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Photo: E.Vinderhoedt
Live (UG)

 

Live 'frothing' (CM)
 


Live (GM)

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Photo: P. Waring
 
Photo: A. Guyonnet
 
 
 
Live (DRC)
 
Live (ZA)
 
Distribution Map
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Photo: N. Vaden
 
Photo: Q. Grobler