African Moths Gambia


     

Rigema ornata Walker, 1865

 

SYNONYMS
Rigema quisola, Antheua ornata,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 3
orientalis, ornata, woerdeni,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Burundi, DRCongo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Grasses, Cyperus esculentus,

Rigema ornata
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (KE)
 
Upperside (KE)
Rigema ornata   Rigema ornata   Rigema ornata
Photo: R. Butler
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
Upperside (KE)
 
Live (ZA)
 
Live (TG)
Rigema ornata   Rigema ornata   Rigema ornata
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: A Lienbenberg
 
Photo: J. Bowen
Live (DRC)
 
Live (UG)
 
Distribution Map
Rigema ornata   Rigema ornata   Map
Photo: N. Voaden
 
Photo: B. Hancock