African Moths Gambia


     

Aegocera rectilinea Boisduval, 1836

 

SYNONYMS
Aegoceropsis rectilinea,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 13
athina, bettsi, brevivitta, ferrugo, fervida, geometrica, humphreyi, jordani, naveli, obliqua, rectilinea, tigrina, tricolora,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, DRCongo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Arachis hypogaea, Boerhavia diffusa, Brassica olerace, Lagenaria sicerana, Lycopersicon, Manihot esculenta, Phaseolus vulgaris, Vigna unguiculata, Zea mays,

Aecgocera rectilinea
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside
 
Upperside
Aecgocera rectilinea   Aecgocera rectilinea   Aecgocera rectilinea
 
Photo: Manchester Museum
 
Photo: Manchester Museum
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside
 
Underside (GM)
Aecgocera rectilinea   Aecgocera rectilinea   Aecgocera rectilinea

Live (GM)
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
Live (GM)
 

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Aecgocera rectilinea
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