African Moths Gambia


     

Dysgonia torrida (Guenée, 1852)

Jigsaw.

(NB. D. algira is a European sympatric species not found in Sub-Saharan Africa)

SYNONYMS
Parallelia torrida, Ophiusa torrida, Ophiusa albivitta, Ophiusa festina, Ophiusa properans, Bastilla torrida,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 31
abnegans, albilinea, algira, analamerana, ankalirano, banian, berioi, crameri, delphinensis, digona, diplocyma, erecta, galphyra, latifascia, laurentensis, lenzi, malgassica, masama, mesonephele, ningi, orbata, pauliani, pentagonalis, perexcurvata, porphyrescens, portia, porasigna, pudica, rectifascia, sakaraha, torrida,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Algeria, Angola, Burundi, Comoros, DRCongo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, La Reunion, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Zea mays, Ricinus communis, Lantana, Malus pumila, Punica grantum,

 

Dysgonia torrida
Upperside (GA)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
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Photo © JL. Albert
 
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Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (TZ)
 
Upperside
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Photo © R. Butler
 
Photo © University Museum Oslo. © W & J De Prins
 
Photo © Oxford University Museum © R. Goff
Underside (GM)
 
Larva (GM)
 
Live (ZA)
Dysgonia torrida
 
Dysgonia torrida
 
Dysgonia torrida
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © R. Goff
 
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Live (RE)
 
Live (DRC)
 
Distribution Map
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Photo © N. Voaden