African Moths Gambia


     

Pygospila tyres (Cramer, 1780)

 

SYNONYMS
Phalaena tyres, Pyrgospila tyridia, Pyrgospils Thyralis

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 2
macrogastra, tyres,


DISTRIBUTION
Cameroon, DRCongo, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Zimbabwe,


LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Holarrhena antidysenterica, Holarrhena pubescens, Tabernaemontana heyneana, Wrightia arborea, Wrightia tinctoria,

 

Pygospila tyres
Upperside (SL)
 
Upperside (SL)
 
Upperside (ZW)
Pygospila tyres   Pygospila tyres   Pygospila tyres
Photo © R. Revell
 
Photo © R. Revell
 
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