Erebidae

ARCTIINAE: Cyana pretoriae ( Pretoria red lines) Distant, 1896


DISCRIPTION:
Small wingspan ( 30mm), distinctive with pure white wings and body, red spots on the head and thorax, yellow banded-legs, and two complete red bands on the fore wings.

                                        Paul Venter 

BIOLOGY;

Larvae feed on lichens, Ipomoea

                                        Manchester Museum

DISTRIBUTION;

Congo,Gabon,Kenya, Malawi,Mozambique,Somalia, South Africa,Tanzania, Uganda,Zambia,Zimbabwe.

Erebiidae

ARCTIINAE: Apisa canescens ( Walker, 1855)

DESCRIPTION:
Is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walker in 1855. Medium wingspan ( 50mm), with pale grey forewings and white hind wings, creamy white larvae with rows of long hairs in tufts.

DISTRIBUTION:
Angola, Congo,Djibouti,Eritrae,Ethiopia,Gabon,Kenya,Liberia,Mozambique,Namibia, Nigeria,Rwanda,Senegal,Sierra Leone, Somalia,South Africa,Sudan,Tanzania,Zambia,Zimbabwe

               JackyCollier, Hammerkop

LARVAL FLOODPLANTS:

Cosmos sulphureus, Fynbos to sub-tropical forest

BIOLOGY:
Adults are nocturnal

             Paul Venter: Magaliesburg, Hammerkop

Noctuidae

AGARISTINAE> Aegocera  fervida (Fervid Tiger)


DISCRIPTION:

                                                                    Collector: Malcolm Bain

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

                                              Collector M Bain

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.

                                                        Collector M Bain

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.