African Moths Gambia


     

Hymenia perspectalis (Hübner, 1796)

 

SYNONYMS
Pyralis perspectalis, Spoladea exportalis, Hymenia phrasiusalis, Zinckenia primordialis,
Desmia rhinthonalis, Spoladea spilotalis,

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 1
perspectalis,

DISTRIBUTION
Comoros, DRCongo, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, La Reunion, Madagascar, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, Zambia,

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Polyphagous, Lilium canadense, Telanthera versicolor, Wedelia,

 

Hymenia perspectalis
Upperside
 
Upperside
 
Upperside
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Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
Upperside (SL)
 
Upperside (SL)
 
Upperside (SL)
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Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © R. Goff
Underside
 
Underside (SL)
 
Live (UG)
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Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © P. Waring
Live (SL)
 
Live (RE)
 
Distribution map
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Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © M. Bippus