African Moths Gambia


     

Palpita vitrealis (Rossi, 1794)

White Pearl.

SYNONYMS
Pyralis unionalis, Palpita unionalis, Botys quinquepunctalis, Magarodes septempunctalis, Margaronia transvisalis, Glyphodes unionalis, Margarodes charalis, Botys intactalis,

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 20
aethrophanes, bonjongalis, caegigena, carbonifusalis, cirrhopis, claralis, conistolalis, elealis, horocrates, irroratalis, jacobsalis, lobisignalis, metallata, ocelliferalis, paulianalis, phaealis, seminigralis, stenocraspis, tsisabiensis, vitrealis,


DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Comoros, DRCongo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, La Reunion, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania,Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Jasminum officinale, Jasmium dichotomum, Jasmium auriculatum, Jasminum sambac, Olea europaea,

 

Palpita vitrealis
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
Palpita vitrealis   Palpita vitrealis   Palpita vitrealis
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © R. Goff
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (TZ)
 
Underside (GM)
Palpita vitrealis   Palpita vitrealis   Palpita vitrealis
Photo © R. Butler
 
Photo © University Museum Oslo. © W & J De Prins
 
Photo © R. Goff
Live (GM)
  Live (DRC)   Live (GM)
Palpita vitrealis
 
Palpita vitrealis
 
Palpita vitrealis
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © N. Voaden
 
Photo © R. Goff
Live (TZ)
 
 
Distribution Map
Palpita vitrealis     Map
Photo © M. Grimm