African Moths Gambia


     

Callopistria maillardi (Guenée, 1862)

White Tangle.

SYNONYMS
Eriopus maillardi, Callopistria nauticorum, Callopistria pseudointermissa, Callopistria recurvata,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 44
albivitta, antithetica, benguellae, bergeri, bernei, cariei, chera, complicata, cornuscopiae, cristata, cyanopera, dascia, equatorialis, flabellum, grassei, imparata, insularis, intermissa, latreillei, maillardi, malagasy, matilei, miranda, nana, natalensis, nephrosticta, nervurata, nigeriensis, nigrosticta, occidens, pauliana, promiscua, randimbyi, rectilinea, renivitta, rufulus, sogai, subroseata, tarsipilosa, thermochroa, unica, violascens, xerysta, yerburii,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, DRCongo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, La Reunion, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Nephrolepis biserrata, Asplenium nidus, Pellaea viridis, Adiantum, Lygodium,

Callopistria maillardi
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (SL)
 
Underside (GM)
Callopistria maillardi   Callopistria maillardi   Callopistria maillardi
Photo: R. Butler
 
 
Live (GM)
 
Live (SL)
 
Distribution Map
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