African Moths Gambia



Strigocossus crassa
(Drury, 1782)

 

SYNONYMS
Phalaena crassa, Xyleutes crassus, Duomitus lunifera, duomitus polioplaga, Xyleutes speciosus,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 12
ambahona, capensis, crassa, cretacea, elephas, guillemei, hepialoides, kushit, mediopallens, moderata, ochricosta, tandoensis,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Cameroon, DRCongo, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Cassia grandis,

 

 

Strigocossus crassa
Upperside (GA)
 
Upperside
 
Underside (GA)
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