African Moths Gambia


     

Anomis sabulifera (Guenée, 1852)

Brown Cotton Moth.

SYNONYMS
Gonitis sabulifera, Gonitis marginata, Gonitis propinqua

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 36
alluaudi, auragoides, benitensis, bidentata, bipunctata, campanalis, capensis, curvifera, elegans, endochlora, erosa, flava, fulvida, grisea, inexpectata, involuta, iobapta, lavaudeni, leona, leucosema, lophognatha, luperca, madida, mandraka, melanosema, mesogona, microdonta, modesta, polymorpha, punctulata, pyrocausta, sabulifera, simulatrix, subfuscata, subrosealis, tamsi,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Botswana, British Indian Ocean Territory, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Abelmoschus esculentus, Althaea, Commersonia bartramia, Corchorus, Gossypium, Grewia occidentalis, Hibiscus, Triumfetta rhomboidea,

 

 

Anomis sabulifera
Upperside (RW)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (ZA)
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Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (SL)
 
Upperside (ZA)
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Upperside (TZ)
 
Underside (ZA)
 
Larva (NA)
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Live (NA)
 
Live (BW)
 
Distribution map
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