African Moths Gambia


     

Palpita vitrealis, (Rossi, 1794)

White Pearl.

SYNONYMS
Pyralis unionalis, Palpita unionalis, Botys quinquepunctalis, Magarodes septempunctalis, Margaronia transvisalis, Glyphodes unionalis, Margarodes charalis, Botys intactalis,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 21
aethrophanes, bonjongalis, caegigena, carbonifusalis, cirrhopis, claralis, conistolalis, elealis, horocrates, irroratalis, jacobsalis, lobisignalis, metallata, ocelliferalis, paulianalis, phaealis, rubritactalis, seminigralis, stenocraspis, tsisabiensis, vitrealis,



DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Comoros, Egypt, Ethiopia, DRCongo, Gambia, Kenya, La Reunion, Madagascar, Mauritius, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania,Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia,


 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Jasminum officinale, Jasmium dichotomum, Jasminum sambac, Olea europaea,

 

Palpita vitrealis
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Photo: N. Voaden