African Moths Gambia


     

Amerila vidua, (Cramer, 1780)

 

SYNONYMS
Phalaena vidua, Rhodogastria vidua,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 34
affinis,
aldabrensis, androfusca, bauri, bipartita, brunnea, bubo, caarneola, castanea, femina, fennia,fuscivena, howardi, leucoptera, lineolata, lupia, luteibarba, madagascarensis, magnifica, metasarca, mulleri, nigrivenosa, nigroapicalis, niveivitrea, pannosa, phaedra, puella, roseomarginata, rothi, rufifemur thermochroa, uniformis, vidua, vitrea.

 

DISTRIBUTION
Cameroon, DRCongo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS

Amerila vidua
Upperside Male
 
Upperside Female
 
Upperside
Amerila vidua   Amerila vidua   Amerila vidua
Photo: E. Vingerhoedt
 
Photo: E. Vingerhoedt
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
Upperside
 
 
Distribution Map
Amerila vidua     Map
Photo: Oxford Museum