African Moths Gambia


     

Biston abruptaria (Walker, 1869)

 

SYNONYMS
Boarmia abruptaria, Buzura aequinoctalis,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 12
abruptaria, antecreta, basanga, dargei, edwardsi, exsilia, gloriosaria, homoclera, johannaria, pteronyma, stringeri, subocularia,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Cameroon,Central African Republic, Congo, DRCongo, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Cupressus lusitanicus, Albizia, Eucalyptus torreliana, Pinus patula, Maesopsis eminii, Paraserianthes falcataria,

Biston abruptaria
Live (CM)
 
Live (CM)
 
Live (DRC)
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Live ssp maculatissimus (UG)
 
Underside (CM)
 
Distribution map
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