African Moths Gambia


     

Laelia fracta Schaus, 1893

Square Laelia.

SYNONYMS
Laelia diascia, Laelia robusta, Laelia eos

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 89
acuta, atrifilata, batoides, bifascia, clarki, curvivirgata, extorta, figlina, fracta, fusca, gwelila, hampsoni, herbida, lignicolor, lunensis, municipalis, nigripulverea, ordinata, phenax, pluto, punctulata, rogersi, rosea, subrosea,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, DRCongo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Grasses, Cyperus, Oryza sativ, Panicum, Pinus patula, Mariscus,

Laelia fracta
Upperside (KE)
 
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (SL)
Laelia fracta   Laelia fracta   Laelia fracta
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Upperside (SL)
 
Upperside (TZ)
 
Upperside (KE)
Laelia fracta   Laelia fracta   Laelia fracta
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Photo © University Museum Oslo. © W & J De Prins
Upperside ssp eos (TZ)
 
Underside (SL)
 
Live (SL)
Laelia fracta   Laelia fracta   Laelia fracta
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Live (NA)
 
 
Distribution Map
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