African Moths Gambia


     

Metachrostis decora (Walker, 1869)

 

SYNONYMS
Plecoptera atristipata, Erastria deora,

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 26
anticalis, chalcoscripta, costiplaga, debivar, decora, eupethecica, flavina, forsteri, misturata, ochrographa, olmii, parvisi, phaeapera, paheographa, politzari, quinaria, quinaroides, remanei, rubripuncta, sciaphora, snelleni, stygiodonta, subdardouini, thermochroa, thermosticta, tritonia,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Botswana, Burkina Fasso, DRCongo, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Albuca, Ornithogalum,

 

Metachrostis decora
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (TZ)
 
Live (ZA)
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Live (BW)
 
Live (ZA)
 
Distribution Map
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