African Moths Gambia


     

Mentaxya albifrons (Geyer, 1837)

White Quaker.

SYNONYMS
Eugraphe albifrons, Agrotis amatura,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 37
albifrons, arabica, atritegulata, basilewskyi, bergeri, bisignata, bruneli, cameraunensis, cumulata, dallolmoi, fletcheri, fouqueae, ignicollis, ikondae, inconstans, indigna, lacteifrons, leroyi, medioatra, minor, muscosa, nigromaculata, nimba, palmistarum, pujoli, pyroides, quadrata, reninigra, rimosa, sandrae, sexalata, strictirena, suffusalis, thomasi, torrianii, trisellata, vuattouxi,


DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, DRCongo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Solanum tuberosum,

Upperside (KE)
 
Upperside (KE)
 
Upperside (ZW)
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Photo: P. Buckham-Bonnet
 
Photo: P. Buckham-Bonnet
 
Photo: R. Butler
Upperside (ZW)
 
Live (ZW)
 
Live (DRC)
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Photo: R. Butler
 
Photo: B. Wursten
 
Photo: N. Voaden
Live (ZA)
 
 
Distribution Map
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Photo: J. Heyns