African Moths Gambia


     

Dasychira octophora (Hampson, 1905)

Eight Spot Tussock.

SYNONYMS
Laelia octophora, Bicelluphora argentea,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 253
achatina, azelota, capnora, cinerea, compsa, extatura, glovera, goodii, heiroglyphica, hyperythra, mahoma, miserata, nigroplagata, octophora, opthalmodes, punctifera, stegmanni, strigidentata, thermoplaga,

 

DISTRIBUTION
South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Lichens,

Dasychira octophora
Upperside (ZA)
 
Live (SZ)
 
Live (SZ)
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Live (ZA)
 
 
Distribution Map
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