LUDIA OF THE WORLD

Ludia orinoptena limbobrunnea courtesy of Paul Jenkins.

LUDIA WALLENGREN, 1865

The Ludia belong to the Tribe Micragonini of the Subfamily Saturniinae. These moths fly in Africa. The type species is Ludia delegorguei.

These moths are relatively small and day-flying males have falcate forewings. The somewhat larger females call during the day, but oviposit at night. Their forewings are slightly produced at the apex but are not falcate.

Both sexes have a clear, irregular "3-shaped" marking on the forewings and a crescent-shaped pupil ringed with orange and then black.

Larvae have feathered hair, and they fashion a thin-silked cocoon among leaf litter or using a leaf wrap.

The orinoptena subspecies have very dark forewings out to the outer margin which is toothed.

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Listing of Ludia

N murphyi HT female, T. Bouyer, 2013 Malawi, Mzimba dist., Nkhorongo, Mzuzu, 15.III.2007, 1375 m.

N riekerti T. Bouyer, 2013 Tanzania, Morogoro, Mikesse Hill, 400 m, iii.2008

N vetusta, Strand, 1911 [Namibia], Windhoek, raised to species status by Bouyer (2013) 1375 m.

N arguta Jordan, 1922 East Africa: Tanzania ??; Somalia/Somaliland, Mandera, northeastern Kenya, Ethiopia
arguta russa Jordan, 1922; Kedai, Kenya, is same as above (Bouyer).
N arida Jordan, 1938 Murro de Pundo, Angola
P corticea Jordan, 1922 Windhoek, Namibia
P delegorguei (Boisduval, 1847) Amaxooloo, southern and eastern Africa; Windhoek, Namibia; Botswana; Zimbabwe; South Africa; probably Malawi
P dentata (Hampson, 1891) Sabaki River, Kenya; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; South Africa; probably Uganda (BOLD)
nyassana Strand, 1911; Tanzania; Kenya; probably Malawi, is same as dentata
P goniata Rothschild, 1907 Swaziland, South Africa: Natal
P hansali Felder, 1874 Bogos, northern Ethiopia; Kenya, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo; possibly Tanzania
P hansali eximia Rothschild, 1907 Kampala, Uganda; Burundi
P hansali festiva Jordan, 1922 northern Nigeria, Cameroon, Republic of Central Africa
P hansali tanganikae Strand, 1911 Ujiji, Tanzania, Kenya
P jordani Bouyer, 1997 Somaliland, Ethiopia
N obscura Aurivillius, 1893 tropical Africa: Ivory Coast, Guinea
N obscura apora Jordan, 1922 Nigeria
N obscura intermedia Jordan, 1922 Lagos, Nigeria
N obscura laeta Jordan, 1922 Ghana; Warri, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Ivory Coast
P obscura sopponis Strand, 1914 Soppo, Cameroon
P orinoptena Karsch, 1892 Buea, Cameroon; Gabon; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Uganda; Tanzania; People's Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Republic of Central Africa
N orinoptena leonardo Stoneham, 1962 Kenya
P orinoptena limbobrunnea Strand, 1911 Malawi: Langenburg, Nyassa; People's Republic of the Congo
N orinoptena monroei Jordan, 1938 northern Transvaal, Woodbush (Limpopo Province of South Africa)
N orinoptena pupillata Strand, 1911 Antottos, Abyssinica (probably Ethiopia), Kenya, Uganda
N orinoptena styx Darge, 1996 Ivory Coast; ??Nigeria, Togo, Ghana
N orinoptena syngena Jordan, 1938 Bathurst, Gambia
N pseudovetusta Rougeot, 1978 Kenya, Tanzania
P pupillata Strand, 1912 Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda; formerly treated as subspecies of orinoptena
P tessmani Strand, 1911 Uelleburg, Equatorial Guinea; Malawi; Cameroon

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