African Moths Gambia


     

Heliothis galatheae (Wallengren, 1856)

Golden Pink.

SYNONYMS
Leocyma galatheae, Curubasa depicta, Adisura imitata, Adisura splendens, Timora lancea, Alaria lanceolata, Timora nigrilineata, Timora bimaculata var. unifasciata, Timora vittulata, Masalia galatheae,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 18
albiseriata, batuense, charmione, conifera, decorata, flavigera, flavirufa, galatheae, incarnata, metachrisea, nubigera, pauliani, peltigera, poliochlora, posttriphaena, richinii, scutuligera, viriplaca, xanthiata,


DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, DRCongo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Unknown,

Heliothis galatheae
Upperside
 
Upperside
 
Upperside
Heliothis galatheae   Heliothis galatheae   Heliothis galatheae
Photo: Manchester Museum
 
Photo: Manchester Museum
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
Upperside
 
Upperside
 
Upperside (ZW)
Heliothis galatheae   Heliothis galatheae   Heliothis galatheae
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: R. Butler
Live (DRC)
 
Live (ZA)
 
Distribution Map
Heliothis galatheae   Heliothis galatheae   Map
Photo: N. Voaden
 
Photo: A. Liebenberg