African Moths Gambia


     

Micralarctia punctulata, (Wallengren, 1860)

SYNONYMS
Spilosoma punctulata, Spilosoma auricinctum, Spilosoma nivaria, Diacrisa nyassama, Amsacta evadne, Spilosoma euproctina, Spilosoma edlingeri, Diacrisa albescens, Estigmene schraderi.

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 4
australis, punctulatum, semipura, tolgoeti,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, DRCongo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Ipomoea batatas

 

Micralarctia punctulata
Upperside
 
Upperside
 
Underside
Micralarctia punctulata   Micralarctia punctulata   Micralarctia punctulata
 
 
Larva
 
Live
 
Distribution Map
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