African Moths Gambia


 

Gonimbrasia zambesina (Walker, 1865)

 

SYNONYMS
Bunaea zambesina, Gonimbrasia barcas, Gonimbrasia rectilinea, Gonimbrasia ringleri, Gpnimbrasia said, Thyella zambesia, Gonimbrasia zanguebarica, Imbrasia zambesina,


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
Angola, Botswana, DRCongo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Mangifera indica, Nerium oleander, Rhus, prunus, Delonix regia, Poinciana, Ozoroa mucronata, Schinus molle, Petrea volubilis, Diospyros mespiliformis,

Gonimbrasia zambesina
Upperside
 
Upperside
 
Upperside
Gonimbrasia zambesina   Gonimbrasia zambesina   Gonimbrasia zambesina
Photo: Oxford Museum
 

Photo: Oxford Museum

 
Photo: Oxford Museum
Larva
 
Live
 
Live (DRC)
Gonimbrasia zambesina   Gonimbrasia zambesina   Gonimbrasia zambesina
Photo: K. Wolfe
 
Photo: K. Wolfe
 
Photo: N. Voaden
Live (DRC)
 
Live (KE)
 
Distribution map
Gonimbrasia zambesina   Gonimbrasia zambesina   Map
Photo: N. Voaden
 
Photo: Z. Wijtten