PSEUDANTHERAEA OF THE WORLD
Updated as per Pinhey's Emperor Moths of South and South-Central Africa, 1972, May 7, 2006
Updated as per Bouyer's Catalogue of African Saturniidae, 1999, May 7, 2006
Updated as per Natural History Museum website, May 7, 2006
Updated as per Nachr. entomol. Ver. Apollo, N.F. 25 (1/2): 27-37 (2004), by Bouyer, Lampe, Nassig; March 2009

PSEUDANTHERAEA OF THE WORLD

Pseudantheraea discrepans female courtesy of Eric van Schayck.

PSEUDANTHERAEA WEYMER, 1892

The Pseudantheraea are a genus within the Urotini tribe of Subfamily Saturniinae, Family Saturniidae; these moths fly in Africa or surrounding islands.

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Listing of Pseudantheraea

P discrepans (Butler, 1878) Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria (Old Calabar), Niger, Gabon, P. R. Congo, D.R. Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Uganda, Angola
arnobia (Westwood, 1881) is same as discrepans according to Bouyer
P imperator Rougeot, 1962 southern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, P. R. Congo, D.R. Congo, northwestern Zambia, Angola, Uganda

Although the ranges overlap, the two species are not known to fly in the same habitat. In Cameroon, P. discrepans is found in moist, dense, semi-deciduous forest, while P. imperator flies in moist, dense, evergreen coastal lowland forest. I do not know if they might be allotropic in areas of Zambia and Uganda.

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