African Moths Gambia


     

Amyna axis Guenée, 1852

Small White Point.

SYNONYMS
Ilattia octo, Poaphilia stricta, Celaena flavigutta, Ilattia cephusalis, Amyna colon, Perigea vexabilis, Perigea leucospila, Segetia orbica, Stridova albigutta, Erastria bavia, Miana inornata, Botys monotretalis, Calaena obstructa, Calaena perfundens, Berresa rufa, Erastria stigmatula, Amyna supplex, Chytoryza tecta, Amyna undulifera,

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 12
acuta, axis, delicata, griseola, incertalis, magnifoveata, natalica, natalis, punctum, rubrirena, ruptirena, virbioides,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, DRCongo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, La Reunion, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Chenopodium album, Arachis hypogaea, Beta vulgaris, Celosia, Corchorus capsularis, Crotalaria juncea, Glycine max, Glycine soja, Hibiscus cannabinus, Spinacia oleracea, Vigna unguiculata,

 

Amyna axis
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM
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Upperside (ZW)
 

Upperside (GM)

 
Underside (GM)
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Photo: R. Butler
 

 

Live (GM)
  Live (GM)  

Live (BW)

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Photo: C. Sydes
Live (RE)
 
 
Distribution Map
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Photo: M. Bippus