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Rhodogastria amasis

Synonyms: Rhodogastria callipyga; Rhodogastria delineata; Rhodogastria erythronota; Rhodogastria serici; Rhodogastria thunbergi

Wikipedia Abstract

Rhodogastria amasis, the tri-coloured tiger moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Cramer in 1779. It is found in Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The larvae feed on Acacia, Calodendrum, Cassia, Cestrum, Clerodendrum, Cotyledon, Passiflora caerulea, Rhus, Senecio, and Tagetes species. Though they are heavily armed with irritant urticating hairs they are readily eaten by fiscal flycatchers and Cape robin-chats that scrub off their hairs against the ground and swallow the larvae whole. Some cuckoos eat the larvae too.
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Prey / Diet

Cestrum aurantiacum (orange jessamine)[1]
Dimorphotheca jucunda[2]
Nuxia floribunda (forest elder)[2]
Passiflora caerulea (blue passion flower)[1]
Volkameria glabra (Natal glorybower)[1]

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Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0