African Moths Gambia


 

Nephele accentifera (Palisot de Beauvais, 1821)

Accented Hawk.

SYNONYMS
Sphinx accentifera, Sphinx tridyma, Nephele variegata,
Nephele ranzani,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 19
accentifera, aequivalens, argentifera, bipartita, comma, comorana, densoi, discifera, funebris, Iannini, leighi, maculosa, monostigma, oenopion, peneus, rectangulata, rosae, vau, xylina,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Burkina Fasso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, DRCongo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Carissa macrocarpa, carissa edulis, Cryptostegia grandiflora, Ficus eriobotryoides, Ficus mammosa, Ficus natalensis, Ficus sur, Ficus thonningii, Nauclea latifolia,

Nephele accentifera
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside
 

Upperside

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Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
Upperside (SL)
 
Upperside (SL)
 
Upperside
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Photo: SMCR-Sphingidae Museum, Czech Republic
Underside (SL)
 
Larva (SL)
 
Pupa (SL)
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Live (NG)
 
Live
 
Distribution Map
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Photo: A. Ajibade
 
Photo G. Norvall