African Moths Gambia


     

Rhodometra sacraria (Linnaeus, 1767)

Vestal.

 

SYNONYMS
Phalaena sacraria, Geometra labda, Geometra sanguinaria, Rhodometra aucta, Rhodometra desertorum, Rhodometra fulvaria, Rhodometra fumosa, Rhodometra minervae, Pyralis sacraria,

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 8
audeoudi, intervenata, labdoides, participata, plectaria, sacraria, satura, sevastopuloi,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Algeria, Botswana, Chad, DRCongo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, La Reunion, Lesotho, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Anthemis, Emex, Oxygonum sinuatum, Persicaria, Polygonum, Rhus,

 

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