African Moths Gambia


     

Tolna sypnoides (Butler, 1878)

Frosted Owl.

 

SYNONYMS
Achaea sypnoides, Ophiusa daedalea, Dysgonia maeandrica,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 19
alboapicata, ambigua, atrigona, burdoni, chionopera, complicata, cryptoleuca, demaculata, hypogrammica, limula, macrosema, niveipicta, nocturnia, sinifera, strandi, sypnoides, tethremicycla, variegata, versicolor,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Comoros, Ghana, La Reunion, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Polyphagous, Mangifera indica, Sapium ellipticum, Ziziphus mucronata,

 

Tolna sypnoides
Upperside (RW)
 
Upperside
 
Upperside
Tolna sypnoides   Tolna sypnoides   Tolna sypnoides
Photo: Charaxes
 
Photo: Manchester Museum
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
Upperside
 
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (ZW)
Tolna sypnoides   Tolna sypnoides   Tolna sypnoides
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: R. Butler
 
Photo: R. Butler
Underside (RE)
 
Live (RE)
 
Live (ZM)
Tolna sypnoides   Tolna sypnoides   Tolna sypnoides
Photo: A. Guyonnet
 
Photo: A. Guyonnet
 
Photo: D. Evered
 
Distribution Map
 
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