Basiothia medea (Fabricius, 1781)

Small Verdant Hawk

SYNONYMS
Sphinx medea, Sphinx clio, Sphinx idrieus, Sphinx onothberina, Basiothia minus, Chaerocampa transfigurata,

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 5
aureata, charis, laticornis, medea, schenki,

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Burkina Fasso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, DRCongo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory coast, Kenya, La Reunion, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Dioda, Spermacoce natalensis, Richardia scabra, Verbena, Pentas coccinea, Gallium, Ipomoea batatas, Oldenlandia, Pentasinia schweinfurthii,