Larvae of many Saturniidae species provide significant nutrition to the people of Congo Brazzaville Republic, and this fact is recognized and celebrated on
postage stamps.
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner and a few snacks.
Most of the list below where my initials (WO) follow the species names is comprised of interpolations by myself based on lists sent to me by Thierry Bouyer
for Gabon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I have updated the list (February 2014) with five species names in green, based on Philippe Darge's
report for Saturniidae taken in northern Congo in the Ouesso region. Philippe reports thirty-six species (Saturnafrica #8, February 2011) from the
swamp forest (Ouesso), most of them included in my interpolations or in data received from others.
The Attacini spin cocoons; the Urotini and
the Bunaeini are earth pupators whose larvae are often used for
food. I suspect the Microgonini are also earth pupators, but I am
not sure.
