African Moths Gambia


     

Hypena obacerralis, Walker, 1859

 

SYNONYMS
Hypena comes, Hypena ferriscitalis, Hypena longipalpis, Hypena sordida,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 99
abyssinialis, conscitalis, cowani, directa, elfriedae, evamariae, fusculalis, jussalis, kratochvili, laceratalis, laetalimaior, laetalis, leucosticta, lividalis, neoplyta, obacerralis, obsitalis, ophiusinalis, puncticosta, scotina, senialis, strigatus, striolalis, tetrastica, varialis, verticalis, viettei, zyzzybae,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, DRCongo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, La Reunion, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Commelina pacifica,

Hypena obacerralis
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (GM)
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Photo © R. Butler
 
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Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (TZ)
 
Underside (GM)
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Live (ZA)
 

Live (ZA)

  Live (GM)
Hypena obacerralis
 
Hypena obacerralis
 
Hypena obacerralis
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Live (SZ)
 
Live (BW)
 
Distribution Map
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