Saturniidae of Nigeria

Eudaemonia argus female, Abuja, Nigeria,
March 2010, courtesy of Sebastian Brandner.

This page is inspired by Sebastian Brandner who has sent the beautiful image of a female Eudaemonia argus from Abuja, Nigeria.

I will attempt to place additional locales on the map as more images from Nigeria arrive.

The following checklist is very very tentative. Those species followed by TB (Thierry Bouyer), SB (Sebatian brandner), PD (Philippe Darge) and NHM (Natural History Museum) should be accurate. Most of the other species are interpolations by myself (William Oehlke, WO?) based on fairly reliable results from Cameroon, east of Nigeria, and fairly reliable results from countries west of Nigeria. I am confident there will be additions, and possibly some deletions.

Saturniini
Argema fournieri TB


Attacini
Epiphora albida WO?
Epiphora rectifascia D'AB
Epiphora vacuna
Ep. vacunoides WO?


Urotini
Eudaemonia argus SB

Pseudanth. discrepens WO?
Pseudanth. imperator NHM

Usta terpsichore WO?









Bunaeini
Athletes albicans WO?
A. ethra ogouensis WO?
A. nyanzae

Aurivillius jolyanorum WO?
Aurivillius triramis WO?

Bunaea alcinoe HR

Buneaopsis licharbas EV

Cirina forda FI

Gonimbrasia hecate WO?
Gonimbr. occidentalis WO?

Imbrasia epimethea FP
Imbrasia obscura NHM









Bunaeini
Lobobunaea acetes WO?
Lobobunaea phaedusa WO?

Nudaurelia alopia WO?
Nudaurelia dione WO?
Nudaurelia eblis WO?

Pseudimbr. deyrollei WO?

Pseudobunaea alinda WO?
Pseudobunaea irius WO?
Pseudob. t. neglecta PD
Pseudob. t. pratorum PD













Micragonini
Carnegia mirabilis WO?

Goodia falcata WO?

Holocerina angulata WO?

Ludia hansali festiva NHM
Ludia obscura opora NHM
Ludia o. intermedia NHM
Ludia obscura laeta NHM
Ludia orinoptera styx WO?

M. agathylla WO?
Micragone ducorpsi
Micragone herilla

O. adiegatum ST
Ortho. chalix ? PD
Ortho. chaminadei WO?
O. dallasti ? PD
O. infernarum ? PD
O. khali PD
O. monochromum PD
Ortho. obamba ? PD
Ortho. vestigiatum PD

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