TAGOROPSIELLA OF THE WORLD
Updated as per Pinhey's Emperor Moths of South and South-Central Africa, 1972, April 25, 2006
Updated as per Bouyer's Catalogue of African Saturniidae, 1999, April 25, 2006
Updated as per Oberprieler's The Emperor Moths of Namibia, April 25, 2006
Updated as per Cooper & Cooper's The Emperor Moths of KwaZulu-Natal, April 25, 2006
Updated as per personal conversation with and images from Thierry Bouyer, May 2006
Updated as per personal communication with Teemu Klemetti (hecqui Uguanda: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park); November 2009

TAGOROPSIELLA OF THE WORLD


Tagoropsis flavinata

TAGOROPSIELLA DARGE, 2008

The genus Tagoropsis belongs to the tribe Urotini in the subfamily Saturniinae in the Family Saturnidae; these moths fly in Africa.

General ground colour of the species in this genus is yellow or orange. Moths have a relatively small hyaline forewing eyespot, encircled with a brown, and the hindwing is devoid of such marking or has only a tiny brown dot for an eyespot.

Gregarious larvae have spiny tubercles and irritating body hairs.

For the southern most species, pupation is amongst surface leaf litter.

P indicates an image is present.

Listing of Tagoropsiella

N expansa Darge, 2008 Tanzania: Morogoro Region, Mts. Uluguru, Bondwa; April
P ikondae Rougeot, 1973 Tanzania: Ikonda, Kipengere Range, 700 m; Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Uganda
N kaguruensis Darge, 2008 Tanzania: Morogoro Region, Kaguru Mts., Forêt, 1900 m; April
N mbiziensis Darge, 2008 Tanzania: Rukwa Region, Mbizi Mts. Forest Reserve, 2252 m; November
N mulanjensis Darge, 2008 S. Malawi: Mt. Mulanje, Chisambo Camp 1, 1625 m; February
P murphyi Bouyer, 2000 southern Tanzania, Malawi: Mt. Zomba, 5000 ft.; January
P nyikensis Bouyer, 2000 Malawi: Nyika Plateau, Juniper Forest, 7000 ft.; November
P tracenlis Bouyer, 2002 Rwanda: fôret de Nyungwe, 2000 m; Burundi, ?? Uganda
N rungwensis Darge, 2008 Tanzania: Mbeya Region, Mt. Rungwe, 1950 m; March
N upembana (Bouyer, 2008) Type locality: Democratic Republic of the Congo: Katanga, P.N. Upemba, PNU116, riv. Luvua.; October Holotype: male: 18-27.X.2003. Hasson & Bouyer. coll. Th. Bouyer. Bouyer, Thierry, 2008, Entomologia Africana 13 (1): 2-19 [1]

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