African Moths Gambia


     

Eretmocera laetissima Zeller, 1852

Joyful Moth.

SYNONYMS
Exodomorpha divisella,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 26
agassizi, albistriata, alenica, basistrigata, benitonis, contermina, dorsistrigata, fasciata, florifera, fuscipennis, haemogastra, homalocrossa, katangensis, kochi, laetissima, letabensis, levicornella, lyneborgi, malelanensis, meyi, monophaea, pachypennis, scatospila, syleuta, tiwiensis, typhonica,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Comoros, DRCongo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Alternanthera achyrantoides, Clerodendrum,

Eretmocera laetissima
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (TZ)
Eretmocera laetissima   Eretmocera laetissima   Eretmocera laetissima
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © University Museum Oslo. © W & J De Prins
Upperside (TZ)
 
Underside (GM)
 
Live (SZ)
Eretmocera laetissima   Eretmocera laetissima   Eretmocera laetissima
Photo © University Museum Oslo. © W & J De Prins
 
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © K. Braun
Live (GM)
 
Live (ZW)
 
Live (NA)
Eretmocera laetissima   eretmocera laetissima   Eretmocera laetissima
Photo © R. Goff
 
Photo © B. Wursten
 
Photo © H. Roland
 
Distribution Map
 
  Map