African Moths Gambia


     

Isturgia deerraria (Walker, 1861)

 

SYNONYMS
Tephrina deerraria, Tephrina dissocia, Tephrina nemorivaga, Asphilodes occupata,

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 37
albogrisea, arenularia, arizela, arizeloides, averyi, catalaunaria, comorensis, contexta, deerraria, devecta, disputaria, dukuduku, exerraria, exospilata, geminata, griveaudi, inaequivirgaria, kiellandi, malesignaria, megasaccus, modestaria, netta, perplexa, pervaria, philbyi, presbitaria, prionogyna, pulinda, pygmaeata, quadriplaga, sakalava, spissata, sublimbata, supergressa, triseriata, univirgaria, virescens,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Chad, Comoros, DRCongo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Acacia tortilis, Acacia karoo, Acacia hirtella, Acacia nilotica, Peltophorum africanum, Acacia mearnsii, Pterocelastrus tricuspidatus,

Isturgia deerraria
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (ZW)
Isturgia deerraria   Isturgia deerraria   Isturgia deerraria
Photo: R. Butler
 
Photo: R. Butler
 
Photo: R. Butler
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside
 
Upperside
Isturgia deerraria   Isturgia deerraria   Isturgia deerraria
Photo: R. Butler
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 

Underside (GM)

Isturgia deerraria
 
Isturgia deerraria
 
Isturgia deerraria
 
 
Live (GM)
 
Live (ZA)
 
Distribution map
Isturgia deerraria   Isturgia deerraria   map
 
Photo: A. Liebenberg