Dysgonia torrida - Jigsaw

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Dysgonia torrida

Photo(s): Bart Wursten, Ndundu Lodge, Vumba.

Species details:

Notes: This species was formerly regarded as conspecific with the European and North African Dysgonia algira but the subsaharan populations are now considered a separate and sympatric sister species.
Distribution: Widespread and common in subsahara Africa.
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Related plant genera:
RosaceaeRubus (Food plant)
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Literature:

Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Nicholas Wightman, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-25

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wightman, N., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2025). Flora of Zambia: Lepidoptera - Butterflies and Moths: Dysgonia torrida .
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/insect-display.php?insect_species_id=400810, retrieved 16 February 2025

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