African Moths Gambia


     

Heliothis scutuligera Guenée, 1852

Shield Rustic.

SYNONYMS
Heliothis errans,

 

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


DISTRIBUTION
Botswana, Djibouti, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Helichrysum,

 

Heliothis scutiligera
Upperside
 
Upperside
 

Upperside

Heliothis scutiligera   Heliothis scutiligera   Heliothis scutiligera
Photo: Manchester Museum
 
Photo: Manchester Museum
 
Photo: Manchester Museum
Live (ZA)
 
Live (ZA)
 
Distribution Map
Heliothis scutiligera   Heliothis scutiligera   Map
Photo: H. Roland
 
Photo: A. Liebenberg