GOODIA OF THE WORLD

Goodia kuntzei male copyright Kirby Wolfe

Goodia kuntzei larva copyright Kirby Wolfe

I will shortly be moving files to respective subgenera listings. Current listings for the Goodia subgenus are marked with a *.

GOODIA HOLLAND, 1893

Members of the Goodia genus belong to the Tribe Micragonini of the Subfamily Saturniinae. These moths fly in Africa.

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Listing of Goodia

* N addita Darge, 2008 Central African Republic
* P astrica Darge, 1977 Gabon, Cameroon
* P canui Bouyer, 2004 Bioko Island of Equatorial Guinea
* N dimonica Darge, 2008 People's Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
* P egeri Bouyer, 2009 Baio Mountain, Bioko Island of Equatorial Guinea
* P falcata (Aurivillius, 1893) Guinea Conakry to Bioko Island to Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic; probably People's Republic of the Congo
* N fulvescens Sonthonnax, 1898 People's Republic of the Congo, possibly same as lunata
* P hierax Jordan, 1922 Wassaw District, Gold Coast in western Ghana, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Ivory Coast (SCI); probably in Cameroon and People's Republic of the Congo
* N leonardi Bouyer, 2009 Guinea Conakry, Forêt classée de Diecké.
Holotype: coll. Bouyer. male. barcode CTB2829. 16-26.III.2003. leg. E. Vingerhoedt & Ph. Léonard. Bouyer, Thierry, 2009, Description de nouveaux Goodia Holland, 1893 (Lepidoptera, Saturniidae), Entomologia Africana 14 (1): 21-27.
* P lunata Holland, 1893 Gabon, Cameroon, western Africa
* P nubilata Holland, 1893 Cameroon; Ogove, Gabon; Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast (SCI); and probably People's Republic of the Congo
nodulifera (Karsch, 1892); is same as nubilata (Thierry Bouyer 2006)
sentosa Jordan, 1922 Cameroon, Gabon; Ivory Coast (SCI); is same as nubilata (Thierry Bouyer 2006); Alen and Benito in Equatorial Guinea
* N nyungwensis Bouyer, 2009 Rwanda, PN Nyungwe, 1650-2500 m.
Holotype: coll. Bouyer. male. barcode CTB1601. 10-24.I.2007. leg. E. Vingerhoedt & G. Vandeweghe. Bouyer, Thierry, 2009, Description de nouveaux Goodia Holland, 1893 (Lepidoptera, Saturniidae), Entomologia Africana 14 (1): 21-27.
* P obscuripennis Strand, 1913 Cameroon; Alen, Equatorial Guinea; Gabon
* P oxytela Jordan, 1922 Cameroon; northern Angola; possibly Zambia; Uganda; Kenya; Democratic Republic of the Congo; maybe Tanzania; Victoria, Nyanza, People's Republic of the Congo
*N pareensis (Darge, 2008) Tanzania??
*P perfulvastra Darge, 1994 Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, People's Republic of the Congo; possibly Democratic Republic of the Congo
* N praedicta Bouyer, 2009 Guinea ConakryGuinée, Conakry, Ziama forest, 500 m.
Holotype: coll. Bouyer. male. barcode CTB2879. VII.2004. leg. T. Melichar. Bouyer, Thierry, 2009, Description de nouveaux Goodia Holland, 1893 (Lepidoptera, Saturniidae), Entomologia Africana 14 (1): 21-27.
* P stellata Darge, 1994 Cameroon, Gabon
* P thia Jordan, 1922 Bitje, Ja River, Cameroon; Democratic Republic of the Congo; probably People's Republic of the Congo
* P unguiculata Bouvier, 1936 possible synonym of lunata; Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Kenya
* P veneris Darge, 1994 Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, probably People's Republic of the Congo

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Subgenus Campimoptilum

N boulardi Rougeot Tanzania

P hollandi Butler, 1898 Voi, Kenya; Tanganyika, Tanzania; Malawi; Yaru (?? possibly Ethiopia and/or Sudan); Natural History Museum indicates a synonym of smithi or form of kuntzei
boulardi Rougeot, 1974, is a synonym of hollandi
I think boulardi has been elevated to species status, distinct from hollandi.

P kuntzei (Dewitz, 1881) South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Malawi, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Angola, Zimbabwe, Equatorial Guinea (NHM); ansorgei (Kirby, 1896) and ochraceum Aurivillius, 1901, are same as kuntzei
I think ansorgei and ochraceum have both been elevated to species status, distinct from kuntzei.

N simukondai Darge, 2012 Isoka, East Province, Zambia

4.Campimoptilum pareensis Darge, Tanzania

5.Campimoptilum sparsum Darge, Tanzania

Subgenus Yatanga

N arabica (Rougeot, 1977) Yemen
N decolor (Le Cerf, 1911) Kenya, Tanzania
= heptapora (Fawcett, 1915)
N oriens (Hampson, 1909)
P smithi (Holland, 1892) Kiu possibly equals Kiunga in coastal Kenya; Kedai, Kenya; Ruwenzori, Uganda; Eritra probably equals Eritrea; possibly ?? Ethiopia; Tanzania; Democratic Republic of the Congo
T. Bouyer, 1999, treats oriens, uniformis, heptapora and decolor as synonyms of smithi
P. Darge regards them as distinct species in subgenus Yatanga.
N uniformis ?? (Joannis, 1913)

In May of 2006, Thierry Bouyer writes,
"Bill,
"There is big confusion in the Goodia. The nomenclature has recently changed in the nubilata / falcata group.

"Nubilata was misidentified by Jordan who redescribed it under the name sentosa. What Jordan indentified as nubilata is in fact falcata. The nomenclature followed by all authors and collectors was obviously that of Jordan, but this needs to be corrected now.

"The nomenclature of this group is
Goodia
(new classification for the nubilata group, cfr Bouyer, T., 2004c – Nouveaux Saturniidae africains de Bioko et note complémentaire sur Goodia Holland, 1893 (Lepidoptera). Ent. Afr. 9 (2) : 43-48, Pl. VI, figs 3.)
nubilata Holland, 1893
= Goodia nodulifera (Karsch, 1893) (Tagoropsis)
= Goodia sentosa Jordan, 1922
canui Bouyer, 2004c
falcata (Aurivillius, 1893) (Tagoropsis)
(= Goodia nubilata sensu Jordan, 1922 and auct.)
oxytela Jordan, 1922

"These are the reasons why the same photo which I identify as falcata, someone else identifies as nubilata, or, that which I identify as nubilata, someone else identifies as sentosa."

The four species in the G. nubilata group are remarkably similar. G. canui is recognized by geography. I have placed a "*" where the orangey-yellow arc meets the costa. A vertical line from the star down will bisect the cloven yellow patch in G. falcata whereas in the other three species the vertical line will be more or less tangent to the inner edge of the patch. G. nubilata can be distinguised from G. oxytela based on the differences in shape of the forewing anal angle. In nubilata the anal angle forms almost a ninety degree angle with the inner and outer margins. In oxytela the angle seems much more obtuse.

In G. falcata, which is consistently dark, the teeth emanating from the marginal areas are more clearly defined and pointed tips are more prominently marked with black.