Saturniidae of Africa
I will try to create a code of sources to aid with future confirmations.
(FI) indicates Food Insects from
http://www.food-insects.com/
organized by professor Gene DeFoliart. should be
accurate
(FI) indicates Food Insects from
http://www.fao.org/docrep/w7540e/w7540e06.htm
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
sba
(SZ) Siberian Zoological Museum, curator
V.V.Dubatolov
http://szmn.sbras.ru/Lepidop/Saturn.htm sba
(WO) indicates my own (William Oehlke) interpolation based on good sources for surrounding countries.
(TV)
Traditional Values of Caterpillars (Insecta: Lepidoptera) Among the
Bisa People of Zambia
(IT) is for Insect Trade, an internet listing which may or may not be reliable.
(BT) is for Butterfly Trade, an internet listing which may or may not be accurate.
I have also used initials of insect suppliers, taxonomists and collectors who have sent me listings or who have listings in publications:
(ALB) = All Leps Barcode of Life;
(BOLD) = BOLD Systems;
(CP) = Clive Pratt;
(AVV) = Alain van Vaive;
(TB) = Thierry Bouyer;
(RR) = Rodolphe Rougerie;
(TK) = Teemu Klemetti;
(NC) = Norbert Cordeiro;
(RO) = Rolf Oberprieler;
(OR) = Otso Reunanen;
(PD) = Philippe Darge;
(JB) = Julius Busingye;
(JVV) = Jacolene van der Vyver;
(EVS) = Eric van Schayck;
(JC) = John Cisecki;
(HR) = Howard Romack;
(RL) = Robert Lemaitre;
(BG) = Bob Grosek;
(NHM) =Natural History Museum;
(FS) = Felix Stumpf
Some species also appear on postage stamps (PS) issued in their respective countries, and some are listed with the Natural History Museum (NHM).
These checklists are very preliminary and should not be taken as "gospel", but I feel they will be a start.
Any information, even the smallest bits, that members can provide will aid in the development of these checklists.
Hopefully dividing the country into a number of different regions will help with some interpolations:
The Saturniidae found in Northern Africa in the temperate or moderate coastal regions of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya are largely those found in southern Europe.Mauritania is hot dry desert. Chad, like Sudan, is desert to the north and tropical in the south. Egypt and Niger are mostly desert. |
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Gonimbrasia hecate and Gonimbrasia occidentalis are reported from Chad by Eric van Schayck.
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 | Senegal, on the west coast, typifies the coastal nations with a tropical climate: hot, humid; rainy season (May to November) with strong southeast winds, followed by a dry season (December to April) dominated by hot, dry, harmattan wind.Mali is subtropical to arid; hot and dry February to June; rainy, humid, and mild June to November; cool and dry November to February. Niger is mostly hot desert. |
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The Equator runs through Central Africa and temperatures get very warm. In Cameroon, the weather is tropical along the coast to semiarid and hot in north.On the opposite coast, Somalia is principally desert, experiencing the northeast monsoon from December to February and the southwest monsoon from May to October. Conditions can get extremely hot. | 
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Djibouti:
H. menieri TB
Most of Angola is a woodland plateau almost 1000 meters high (over 3,280 ft), though a few lower areas have tropical forest.Angola has a tropical savanna climate, with rain in the hot season (October to March) and a dry cool season (May to August). Temperatures on the plateau are lower than average for their latitude, because the land is high, and the southern part of the coastal plain is desert. |
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