HENIOCHA OF THE WORLD
Updated as per Pinhey's Emperor Moths of South and South-Central Africa, 1972, January 19, 2006
Updated as per Bouyer's Catalogue of African Saturniidae, 1999, January 19, 2006
Updated as per Cooper's The Emperor Moths of KwaZulu-Natal, 2002, January 19, 2006
Updated as per personal correspondence with Thierry Bouyer, May 2006
Updated as per personal correspondence with Rolf Oberprieler, 2004-2005
Updated as per Lambillionea (vingerhoedti and marnois) No 2, June 30, 1992
Updated as per BOLD Systems, February 2008
Updated as per personal communication with Cyril Di Gennaro (Heniocha digennaroi, Ethiopia), November 2008
Updated as per Wiki Species, December 27, 2013

HENIOCHA OF THE WORLD


Heniocha marnois moth courtesy of Jacolene van der Vyver.

HENIOCHA Hübner, [1819] 1816

The Heniocha belong to the Bunaeini tribe of Subfamily Saturniinae of the Family Saturniidae.

Heniocha dyops larva, courtesy of Rolf Oberpreiler.

These moths fly in Africa.

P indicates an image is available.

Listing of Heniocha

P apollonia (Cramer, 1779) South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi
P apollonia lindti Namibia
P digenarroi Bouyer, 2008 Ethiopia
P distincta Bryk, 1939 Namibia
P dyops (Maassen & Weymer, 1872) Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Angola, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi
Heniocha bioculata (Aurivillius, 1879), is a synonym of H. dyops.
P flavida (Butler, 1877) South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, (Malawi BOLD)
P hassoni Bouyer, 2008 Angola: Cuanza Sul, Cassoco; March
P marnois (Rogenhofer, 1891) South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of the Congo = (Zaire), Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi
P pudorosa Darge, 2005 Tanzania: Mbeya Province, Usangu Flats, savanna, 1139 m. now synonymized with vingerhoedti by Bouyer
P vingerhoedti Bouyer, 1992 Tanzania, Rwanda; possibly Kenya TB; possibly NamibiaCentral African Republic RO; possibly as far south as Malawi TB

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