African Moths Gambia


     

Heliothis peltigera (Denis &Schiffermüller, 1175)

Bordered Straw.

SYNONYMS
Noctuda peltigera,

 

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


DISTRIBUTION
Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Gambia, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Somalia, Tunisia,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Polyphagous,

 

Heliothis peltigera
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 

Underside (GM)

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Live (MA)
 
 
Distribution Map
Heliothis peltigera     Map
Photo: HJ. Smit