African Moths Gambia


     

Acontia antica Walker, 1862

 

SYNONYMS
Tarache, acontina, Tarache semiplumbea,
Tarache brabanti,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 173
antica, aurelia, basifera, caeruleopicta, caffraria, carnescens, discoidea, dispar, ectorrida, glaphyra, gradata, guttifera, hortensis, imitatrix, insocia, lucida, luteola, margaritata, melaphora, natalis, niphogona, nubila, nubilata, opalinoides, porphyrea, psaliphora, tinctilis, transfigurata, trychaenoides, umbrigera, wahlbergi,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Botswana, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Abutilon grantii, Hibiscus praeteritus,

Acontia antica
Upperside (ZA)
 

Upperside (ZA)

 
Upperside (ZA)
Acontia antica   Acontia antica   Acontia antica
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
Underside (ZA)
 
Type
 
Live (ZA)
Acontia antica   Acontia antica   Acontia antica
 
 
 
Distribution Map
 
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