African Moths Gambia


     

Vittaplusia vittata (Wallengren, 1856)

Streaked Plusia.

 

SYNONYMS
Plusia vittata, Habrostola commidendri, Abrostola transfixa, Trichoplusia borbonica,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 2
petraea, vittata,


DISTRIBUTION
Botswana, Burundi, Comoros, DRCongo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, La Reunion, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Artemisia afra, Callistephus chinensis, Callistephus hortensis, Syncolostemon densiflorus, Erigeron albidus, Solanum mauritianum, Solanum macranthum, Commidendrum robustum,

 

Vittaplusia vittata
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
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Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (SL)
 
Underside (GM)
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Photo: R. Butler
 
 
Live (ZA)
 
Live (GM)
 
Distribution Map
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Photo: H. Roland