African Moths Gambia


     

Spodoptera exempta (Walker, 1857)

African Army Worm.

SYNONYMS
Agrotis exempta, Prodenia bipars, Prodenia ingloria,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 10
apertura, cilium, excelsa, exempta, exigua, littorallis, malagasy, maurita, teferi, triturata,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Botswana, Burkina Fasso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Djibouti, DRCongo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Polyphagous, Gossypium, Zea mays, Sorghum, Oryza, Triticum,

 

Spodoptera exempta
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside
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Photo: Oxford Museum
Upperside
 
Upperside (ZW)
 
Underside (GM)
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Photo: Oxford Museum
 
 
Live (GM)
 
Live (GM)
 
Distribution Map
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