African Moths Gambia


     

Somatina vestalis (Butler, 1875)

Vestal Birdling.

SYNONYMS
Argyris vestalis,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 27
accraria, apicipuncta, centrophora, chalyboeata, ctenophora, figurata, fletcheri, fraus, fungifera, hombergi, impunctulata, ioscia, irregularis, lemairei, lia, moxambica, nucleata, probleptica, prouti, pythiaria, rhodochila, sanctithomae, sedata, subviridata, syneorus, vestalis, virginalis,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Botswana, Comoros, DRCongo, Eritrea, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Unknown,

 

Somatina vestalis
Upperside (ZM)
 
Upperside (ZM)
 
Upperside (ZM)
Somatina vestalis   Somatina vestalis  
Somatina vestalis
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
Live (ZA)
 
Live (MZ)
 
Live (DRC)
Somatina vestalis   Somatina vestalis   Somatina vestalis
Photo: A. Liebenberg
 
Photo: L. De Beer
 
Photo: N. Voaden
Live (ZA)
 
 
Distribution map
Somatina vestalis     map
Photo: H. Roland