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The terrain is mostly high plateau with the Namib Desert along the Atlantic Coast and the Kalahari Desert to the east. Namibia is consistently hot and dry, with frequent periods of drought.
With limited fresh water and natural resources and a 22% adult AIDS infection rate, the future does not look bright for Namibia.
Many Saturniidae seem affiliated with specific mountainous areas or river basins. Some feed on the sparse trees that dot the otherwise dry plateaus or on the reedy grasses associated with the plains.
This checklist has been compiled from info from many members of the WLSS, and all species have been qualified by checking with Rolf Oberprieler's Emperor Moths of Namibia, an excellent book.
Rolf confirms the current list with an email on May 16, 2004. He indicates there is at least one additional unidentified Pseudobunaea spp. He also indicates he now includes Cirina forda as an Imbrasia species.
In 2008, Darge described Gynanisa zimba from Namibia. I am not sure if this name now replaces those moths from Namibia previously thought to be Maja or if both species fly in Namibia.
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