African Moths Gambia


     

Scopula minorata (Boisduval, 1833)

 

SYNONYMS
Geometra minorata, Acidalia luculata, Acidalia mauritiata, Acidalia consentanea, Acidalia holobapharia, Emmiltis mombasae,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 280
accentuata, acentra, adelpharia, argentidisca, bigeminata, caesaria, curvimargo, demissaria, deserta, disparata, donovani, fimbrilineata, haemaleata, horiochroea, inscriptata, internata, internataria, lactaria, latitans, lubricata, luridata, minoa, minorata, natalica, nemorivagata, nepheloperas, nigrinotata, opicata, ossicolor, penultima, pulchellata, pyrrhochra, quadrifasciata, ruficolor, rufisalsa, sagittilinea, sanguinisecta, serena, sincera, sinnaria, spoliata, straminea, sublobata, subobliquata, timia, tornisecta, transsecta, tricommata,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Cameroon, Comoros, DRCongo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, La Reunion, Madagascar, Mauritius, Morocco, Nigeria, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Polyphageous, Antigonon leptopus, Asystasia, Barieria, Ipomoea, Petunia, Plumbago,

 

Scopula minorata
Upperside (SO)
 
Upperside (SO)
 
Upperside (SO)
Scopula minorata   Scopula minorata   Scopula minorata
Photo © Oxford University Museum © R. Goff
 
Photo © Oxford University Museum © R. Goff
 
Photo © Oxford University Museum © R. Goff
Upperside (SL)
 
Upperside (SL)
 
Underside (SL)
Scopula minorata   Scopula minorata   Scopula minorata
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © R. Goff
Underside (SL)
 
Live (SL)
 
Live (DRC)
Scopula minorata   Scopula minorata   Scopula minorata
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © N. Voaden
Live (TZ)
 
Live (TZ)
 
Distribution Map
Scopula minorata   Scopula minorata   Map
Photo © M. Grimm
 
Photo © M. Grimm