African Moths Gambia


     

Amerila Vitrea, Plötz, 1880

SYNONYMS
Pelochyta vidua, Rhodogastria vitrea

 

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
Angola, Benin, Burkino Fasso,Cameroon, Congo, DRCongo, Eritrea, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS

Unknown

Amerila vitrea
Upperside
 
Upperside
 
Upperside Female
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Photo: E. Vinderhoedt
Upperside Female
 
Underside
 

Live

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Photo: E.Vinderhoedt
Live

 

Live 'frothing'
 

Distribution Map
Amerila vitrea
  Amerila vitrea   Map
Photo: P. Waring
 
Photo: A. Guyonnet