African Moths Gambia


     

Leucania phaea Hampson, 1902

 

SYNONYMS
Cirphis phaea, Cirphis leucosticha, Mythimna phaea,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 50
acrepex, acutangulata, aedesiusi, albimacula, argyrina, atrinota, bertha, bilineata, borbonensis, carneotincta, citrinotata, clavifera, confluens, cupreata, curvula, cyprium, exclamans, fasilidasi, fissifascia, hypnocapna, incompleta, insularis, insulicola, joannisi, leucogramma, leucosphaenoides, longipennis, loreyi, mediolacteata, melanostrota, miasticta, murcida, palaestinae, patrizii, pectinata, perstriata, phaea, pinna, ptyonophora, punctosa, punctulata, quadricuspidata, respersa, reticulata, rufescenoides, ruptilinea, sicula, subcrapex, tenebra, zeae,


DISTRIBUTION
Cameroon, DRCongo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, La Reunion, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Saccharum officinarum,

 

Leucania phaea
Upperside (ZM)
 
Upperside (ZM)
 
Upperside (SL)
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Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Upperside (SL)
 
Underside (SL)
 
Distribution Map
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