African Moths Gambia


     

Gracilodes caffra Guenée, 1852

Orange Drab.

SYNONYMS

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 13
albiplagiata, angularis, angustipennis, antinysa, caffra, disticha, fenestrata, finissima, fuscosa, metopis, nyctichroa, nysa, opisthenops,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Comoros, DRCongo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Bidens pilosa,

Gracilodes caffra
Upperside
 
Upperside (ZM)
 

Upperside (ZM)

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Upperside (ZM)
 
Upperside (ZM)
 

Upperside (TZ)

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Live (MZ)
 
 
Distribution Map
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