African Moths Gambia


     

Eretmocera laetissima Zeller, 1852

Joyful Moth.

SYNONYMS
Exodomorpha divisella,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 31
agassizi, albistriata, alenica, arabica, basistrigata, benitonis, bradleyi, contermina, dorsistrigata, fasciata, florifera, fuscipennis, haemogastra, homalocrossa, impactella, jemensis, katangensis, kochi, laetissima, letabensis, levicornella, lyneborgi, malelanensis, meyi, monophaea, pachypennis, scatospila, shoabensis, syleuta, tiwiensis, typhonica,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Comoros, DRCongo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Alternanthera achyrantoides, Clerodendrum,

Eretmocera laetissima
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Underside (GM)
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Live (GM)
 
Live (ZW)
 
Distribution Map
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Photo: B. Wursten