Nudaurelia anna mirei
Updated as per Bouyer's Catalogue of African Saturniidae, 1999, April 14, 2006
Updated as per personal communication with Sebastian Brandner (Boumba-Bek National Parc, 500m, 120mmSouth-East Cameroon, February 2011);
January 24, 2012

Gonimbrasia (Nudaurelia) anna mirei
nood-aur-REEL-ee-uhMAN-nuhMMIRE-eye
Darge, 1973

Nudaurelia anna mirei female, Boumba-Bek NP, Sud Est Cameroon,
500m, February 2011, courtesy of Sebastian Brandner,
on my home computer only.

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Comments, suggestions and/or additional information are welcomed by Bill.

TAXONOMY:

Superfamily: Bombycoidea, Latreille, 1802
Family: Saturniidae, Boisduval, [1837] 1834
Subfamily: Saturniinae, Boisduval, [1837] 1834
Tribe: Bunaeini, Packard, 1902
Genus: Imbrasia, Hubner, [1819] 1816 or
Genus: Nudaurelia, W. Rothschild, 1895

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DISTRIBUTION:

Nudaurelia anna mirei (wingspan: males: ??; females: 120mm) flies in
Cameroon: Sud Est: Boumba-Bek National Park, at elevations of 500m.

FLIGHT TIMES AND PREFERRED FOOD PLANTS:

Nudaurelia anna mirei flies in February and probably in other months.

Gingerbread palm (Hyphaene crinita) is the preferred foodplant.

Nudaurelia anna mirei female (verso), Boumba-Bek NP, Sud Est Cameroon,
500m, February 2011, courtesy of Sebastian Brandner,
on my home computer only.

ECLOSION, SCENTING AND MATING:

Eclosion is from underground pupae.

Both sexes fly at night with the males coming in to lights around midnight, the scenting time of the females.

EGGS, LARVAE AND PUPAE:


Larval Food Plants

It is hoped that this alphabetical listing followed by the common name of the foodplant will prove useful. The list is not exhaustive. Experimenting with closely related foodplants is worthwhile.

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The suggested pronunciations, on this page and on other pages, are primarily put forward to assist those who hear with internal ears as they read.

There are many collectors from different countries whose intonations and accents would be different.

Some of the early describers/namers chose genus and species names indicating some character of the insect, but more often, they simply chose names from Greek or Roman mythology or history.

Those species names which end in "ensis" indicate a specimen locale, and those which end in "i", pronounced "eye", honour a contempory friend/collector/etc.

The genus name Nudaurelia means 'naked gold' (Pinhey).

The species name "anna", is probably from mythology where Anna is the sister of Dido. (Pinhey). The subspecies name is honourific for Mire.