African Moths Gambia


     

Rhabdophera exarata (Mabille, 1890)

 

SYNONYMS
Polydesma exarata, Heteropalpia lilliae,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 11
acrosticta, arefacta, cortytoides, exarata, hansali, mahafaly, profesta, robusta, rosacea, vetusta, wolframmeyi,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Burkina Faso, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Mauritania, Namibia, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Acacia,

 

Rhabdophera exarata
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (TZ)
 
Upperside (UAE)
Rhabdophera exarata   Rhabdophera exarata   Rhabdophera exarata
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Photo © University Museum Oslo. © W & J De Prins
 
Photo © University Museum Oslo. © W & J De Prins
Upperside ssp wiltshirei (UAE)
 
Underside (GM)
 
Live (GM)
Rhabdophera exarata   Rhabdophera exarata   Rhabdophera exarata
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Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © R. Goff
 
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