Noctuidae

AGARISTINAE> Aegocera  fervida (Fervid Tiger)


DISCRIPTION:

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DISTRIBUTION:

Angola, Barundi,Cameroon,Congo, Ghana,kenya, Malawi, Mozambique,Namibia, South Africa,Tanzania, Uganda,Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Erebidae

ARCTIINAE> Popoudina lemniscata (Distant , 1898)

DISCRIPTION:
Popoudina is a genus of moth in the Erebidae Family. Formely the species of this genus were mistakenly included in Estigmene. Probably some species of the latter genus might belong to Popoudina.

DISTRIBUTION:
Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe

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Notodontiidae

DICRANURINAE: Desmeocraera basalis ( Basal prominent)



DISTRIBUTION:
Angola, Botswana, Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Notodontiidae

PHALERINAE: Antheua encausta ( Scorched frill)


DISCRIPTION:
Antheua is a genus of moths in the Notodontidae family

DISTRIBUTION:

Angola, Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe

                                                                           Collector: M Bain

Noctuidae

ACONTIINAE: Acontia caffraria  (Caffraria droplet)

Acontia Is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family. Eusceptis, Pseudalypia and Spragueia are sometimes included in the present genus, but they are tentatively treated as different pending further research. Many species of Tarachne were also once placed there.

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DISTRIBUTION:
Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania

DISCRIPTION:
Palpi long porrect and met by a short frontal tuft. Third joint prominent. Antennae simple. Thorax and abdiman smoothly scaked and tuftless. Forewings with non- creulate cilla. Veins 7.8 and 9,10 stalked. Larva possess four abdominal prolegs.

Erebiidae

LYMANTRIINAE: LACIPA SP (gemmata or nobilis)

DESCRIPTION:
Lacipa is a genus of moth in the Lymantriidae family

Photo Jacky Collier                     Collector Malcolm Bain

DISTRIBUTION:
gemmata occuring in the Congo,South Africa, Uganda , Zambia
nobilis occuring in Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Rwanda, Zambia and Zimabwe.

                                                       Photo: N Voaden

Erebiidae

ARCTIINAE: Thyretes caffra ( Bar Maiden)

DISTRIBUTION:

Thyretes caffra is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Wallengren in 1863. It is found in Botswana, Lesothu, Mozambique, Namibia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

The larvae feed on Acacia Karoo

Photo Jacky Collier                       Collector M Bain

                                                      Photo: Joan Young

Reference Material:


http://www.nhm.ac.uk

http://www.africanmoths.com/pages/EREBIDAE/ARCTIINAE/thyretes%20caffra.html