African Moths Gambia


 

Ctenoplusia fracta (Walker, 1858)

Broken Plusia.

SYNONYMS
Plusia fracta,

 

SPECIES IN GENUS :- 19
accentifera, amydra, asteia, aurisuta, camptogramma, dargei, dorfmeisteri, edora, euchroa, euchroides, fracta, furcifera, limbirena, perispomena, phocea, polycampta, polyteles, rhodographa, scoteina,


DISTRIBUTION
Burkina Faso, Botswana, Cameroon, DRCongo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Labiatae, Maytenus buxifolia, Gymnosporia buxifolia,

Ctenoplusia fracta
Upperside (RW)
 
Upperside
 
Upperside (ZA)
Ctenoplusia fracta   Ctenoplusia fracta   Ctenoplusia fracta
Photo: Charaxes
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
 
Photo: Oxford Museum
Upperside (ZW)
 
Upperside (SL)
 
Upperside (SL)
Ctenoplusia fracta   Ctenoplusia fracta   Ctenoplusia fracta
Photo: R. Butler
 
 
Live (ZA)
 
Live (UG)
 
Distribution map
  Ctenoplusia fracta   map
Photo: A. Roberts
 
Photo: M. Stanton