African Moths Gambia


 

Hippotion gracilis (Butler, 1875)

 

SYNONYMS
Chaerocampa gracilis,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 25
aporodes, aurora, balsaminae, batschii, butleri, celerio, chloris, dexippus, eson, geryon, gracilis, griveaudi, irregularis, isis, moorei, osiris, pentagramma, rebeli, rosae, roseipennis, saclavorum, socotrensis, stigma, talboti, velox,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, DRCongo, Gambia, La Reunion, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra leone,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Unknown,

Hippotion gracilis
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
 
Upperside (GM)
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Upperside (GM)
 

Upperside (SL)

 
Upperside (SC)
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Photo: M. Bippus
Underside (GM)
 
eson / gracilis comparison
 
Live (NG)
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Photo: A. Ajibade
Live (GM)
 
Live (GM)
 
Distribution Map
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