WORLD'S LARGEST SATURNIIDAE SITE

Saturniidae of Africa Directory

Welcome to the Saturniidae of Africa Directory of the World's Largest Saturniidae Site (WLSS). This is a private membership site with access intended only for those who have paid the one-time-life-time membership registration fee or who have been awarded free membership for image and or data submissions.

The website is designed and maintained by Bill Oehlke who can be reached at oehlkew@islandtelecom.com or oehlkew@hotmail.com.

This work is intended to serve as a reference for all those who share a similar passion for the Saturniidae. Every effort is made to help members identify the moths they have purchased or collected or photographed, etc, and every effort is made to help those who wish to try rearing either from the egg, caterpillar, cocoon or adult stage.

You can keep abreast of what is new on the WLSS by consulting the "Mothly Newsletter". New additons to the site will be documented there. Egg pricelists are available in appropriate newsletters through spring and summer. Cocoon and pupae pricelists are available in fall and winter newsletters. The newsletters often get updated a couple of times each week. There are now too many members to do individual mailouts, so check out the newsletter to find out what's happening!

Thanks to Eric C. Olson for suggesting a more prominent location for the newsletter link.

Clicking on a country name will take you to an active checklist (i.e., links to species files from that country). Only African Nations and species are linked from this page. I am required by this host service provider to keep the number of files in a particular directory to less than 20,000 files. Because the WLSS is so picture rich, I cannot keep all files in one directory. The main directory can be accessed at http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/granddaddybiz.htm, but if you are just interested in searching the African Nation or African Species files, it is probably best/quicker to work from this page.

Alphabetical Listings of Countries and Some Geographic Areas in Africa

Algeria Angola Benin Bioko Island Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Central African Republic Chad P. R. Congo Dem. Rep. Congo Djibouti

Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guninea Conakry Guinea Guinea Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia

Libya NS Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania NS Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe

Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia Somaliland South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe

Information about and pictures of many of the world's large and showy moths (Saturniidae) are available through the hypertext coloured links listed below. Genera within a particular subfamily all have the same colour link. The following colour code is used:

MICRAGONINI: AFRICAN MOTHS

SATURNIINAE: Tribe Attacini: "Forewing Apex Eyespot", worldwide, cocoons

SATURNIINAE: Tribe Bunaeini: Emperor moths of Africa, earth pupators

SATURNIINAE: Tribe Saturniini: worldwide, cocoons

SATURNIINAE: Tribe Urotini: Emperor moths of Africa, earth pupators

Clicking on one of the genera names will take you to a page listing known species within the genus. Subsequent clicking on a species name will take you to another page with pictures and information, including natural ranges, larval host plants, flight times and brood seasons,etc.

ACANTHOCAMPA ADAFROPTILUM ALINDABUNAEA ANCALAESPINA ANGELICA ANTHERINA ANTISTATHMOPTERA...... ARGEMA ATHLETES AURIVILLIUS BUNAEA BUNAEOPSIS CAMPIMOPTILUM CARNEGIA

CERANCHIA CINABRA CIRINA DECACHORDA EOCHROA EOSIA EPIPHORA EUDAEMONIA EUSTERA GONIMBRASIA GOODIA GUILLEMEIA GYNANISA HENIOCHA

HOLOCERINA IMBRASIA LEUCOPTERYX LOBOBUNAEA LUDIA MALTAGOREA MELANOCERA MICRAGONE MONTANAURELIA NUDAURELIA ORTHOGONIOPTILUM...... PARUSTA PROTOGYNANISA PSELAPHELIA

PSEUDANTHERAEA PSEUDAPHELIA PSEUDIMBRASIA PSEUDOBUNAEA PSEUDOLUDIA ROHANIELLA TAGOROPSIS TAGOROPSIELLA THYELLA UBAENA UROTA USTA VEGETIA YATANGA