African Moths Gambia


     

Brunia vicaria (Walker, 1854)

Ubiquitous Footman.

SYNONYMS
Lithosia vicaria, Eilema desiccata, Lithosia imitans, Lithosia simulans, Lithosia antica, Lithosia natara, Lithosia sarawaka, Ovenna vicaria,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 12
agonchae, birketsmithi, desiccata, dorsti, guineacola, melemona, nebuliferella, pseudosimplex, rhyparodactyla, simplex, sokotrensis, vicaria,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, British Indian Ocean Territory, Cameroon, Congo, DRCongo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Nambiia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,


LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Unknown

Brunia vicaria
Upperside (ZA)
 
Upperside (ZM)
 
Upperside (ZW)
Brunia vicaria   Brunia vicaria   Brunia vicaria
Photo © T. Baron
 
Photo © C. Mateke
 
Photo © R. Butler
Upperside (ZM)
 
Upperside (SL)
 
Underside (GM)
Brunia vicaria   Brunia vicaria   Brunia vicaria

Photo © C. Mateke

 
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © R. Goff
Underside (ZA)
 

Underside (SL)

  Live (ET)
Brunia vicaria

 
Brunia vicaria
 
Brunia vicaria

Photo © T. Baron

  Photo © R. Goff   Photo © P. Bruce-Jones
Live (ZM)
 
Live (DRC)
 
Distribution Map
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Photo © C. Mateke
 
Photo © N. Voaden