African Moths Gambia


 

Nephele comma Hopffer, 1857

Comma Nephele.

SYNONYMS
Nephele charoba, Nephele triangulifera,


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, Congo, DRCongo, Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Anthobotha macrophylla, Carissa macrocarpa, Carissa bispinosa, Diplorhynchus condylocarpon, Landolphia calabarica, Landolphia owariensis, ,

Nephele comma
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
Nephele comma   Nephele comma   Nephele comma
 
 
Upperside
 
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside
Nephele comma   Nephele comma   Nephele comma
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: R. Butler
 
Photo: SMCR - Sphingidae Museum, Czech Republic
Underside (GM)
 
Live (ZW)
 
Live (GM)
Nephele comma
 
Nephele comma
 
Nephele comma
 
Photo B. Wursten
 
Live (NA)
 
Live (DRC)
 
Distribution Map
Nephele comma   Nephele comma   Map
Photo: H. Roland
 
Photo: N. Voaden