African Moths Gambia


     

Mentaxya ignicollis (Walker, 1857)

Lichen Quaker.

SYNONYMS
Agrotis ignicollis, Lycophotia ignetincta, Agrotis mesosema,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 37
albifrons, arabica, atritegulata, basilewskyi, bergeri, bisignata, bruneli, cameraunensis, cumulata, dallolmoi, fletcheri, fouqueae, ignicollis, ikondae, inconstans, indigna, lacteifrons, leroyi, medioatra, minor, muscosa, nigromaculata, nimba, palmistarum, pujoli, pyroides, quadrata, reninigra, rimosa, sandrae, sexalata, strictirena, suffusalis, thomasi, torrianii, trisellata, vuattouxi,


DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Caneroon, Comoros, Congo, DRCongo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Solanum tuberosum, Eragostis tef,

Mentaxya ignicollis
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (ZW)
 
Underside (ZA)
Mentaxya ignicollis   Mentaxya ignicollis   Mentaxya ignicollis
Photo: R. Butler
 
Photo: R. Butler
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
Type
 
Live (ZA)
 
Live (ZA)
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Photo: Oxford museum
 
Photo: H. Roland
 
Photo: H. Roland
Live (ZA)
 
 
Distribution Map
Mentaxya ignicollis     map
Photo: J. Heyns