African Moths Gambia


     

Lophorrhachia rubricorpus (Warren, 1898)

Eyed Emerald.

 

SYNONYMS
Oenospila rubricorpus, Lophorrhachia rubricornis, Hemithea plagiata, Lophorrhachia niveicristata,



SPECIES IN GENUS :- 12
aciculata, aenospila, atricristata, burdoni, insulsa, mutanda, oerrhoda, palliata, restricta, rhathyma, rubricorpus, usiura,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Cameroon, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Maerua hoehnelii, Schinus molle,

 

Lophorrhachia rubricorpus
Upperside (RW)
 
Upperside (ZW)
 
Distribution map
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Photo: Charaxes
 
Photo: R. Butler