African Moths Gambia


     

Sameodes cancellalis (Zeller, 1852)

Banded Pearl.

SYNONYMS
Botys cancellalis, Epigagis cancellalis, Lepyrodes lepidalis, Hymenia meridionalis, Stenia pipleisalis, Samea sidealis, Samea vespertinalis, Sameodes trithyralis,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 2
cancellalis, microspilalis,



DISTRIBUTION
Cameroon, Comoros, Gambia, DRCongo, La Reunion, Madagascar, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe,


 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Decaying matter? Oryza sativa, Stylosanthes erecta, Tectona grandis,

Sameodes cancellalis
Upperside
 
Upperside
 
Upperside
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Photo: R. Butler
Underside
 
Live
 
Live
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Live
 

Live
 
Photo: T. Bishop
Distribution Map
Sameodes cancellalis
  Sameodes cancellalis   Map
Photo: N. Voaden
 
Photo: H. Roland