African Moths Gambia


 

Gonimbrasia cytherea (Fabricius, 1775)

Pine Tree Emperor.

SYNONYMS
Bombyx cytherea, Nudaurelia cytherea, Imbrasia cytherea, Gonimbrasia unicolor, Gonimbrasia pauper,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 39
affinis, alcestris, anna, balachowskyi, belina, birbiri, bubo, carnegiei, cocaulti, congolensis, conradsi, cytherea, desena, dissimilis, elgoniana, ellisoni, entebeensis, fletcheri, fucata, godarti, hecate, hoehnelii, kaguruensis, mariae, mbiziana, miranda, murphyiana, occidentalis, osiris, pales, persicutus, properubida, rectilineata, ruvuensis, tyrrhea, ufipana, ukerewensis, wahlbergii, zambesina,

 

DISTRIBUTION
South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Euclea daphnoides, Euclea racemosa, Protea mundii, Protea mellifera, Myrsine melanophloeos, Rhus crenata, Rhus angustifolia, Watsonia iridifolia, Acacia saligna, Acacia cyclopis, Acacia mollissima, Myrica cordifolia, Cupressus macrocarpa, Eucalyptus globulus, Liriodendron tulipifera, Pinus radiata, Pinus longifolia, Psidium guajava, Leucospermum saxosum, Rhamnus prinoides,

Gonimbrasia cytherea
Upperside
 
Upperside
 
Upperside
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Photo: Oxford Museum
 

Photo: Oxford Museum

 
Photo: Oxford Museum
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Photo: C. Humphrey