Nigel Voaden of United Kingdom has provided a number of beautiful images of live Saturniidae from Africa and from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Dacunju jucunda male,
Serra do Mar, Atlantic Forest, Regua, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
courtesy of Nigel Voaden

Nigel has also provided a large set of images from Sakania, Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Sakania is very close to the border with Copper Belt, Zambia, and I have used collecting data from Zambia (Robert Minetti), published by Philippe Darge, to help with identifications of those specimens from DRC. Robert has also provided images from further north: Bambari, Ouaka, Republic of Central Africa. There are some very beautiful moths in the areas cited.

For the first time a live male Nudaurelia macrops is displayed on WLSS.

Nudaurelia macrops male, Sakania, Democratic Republic of the Congo,
January 13, 2014, courtesy of Nigel Voaden.

Nudaurelia macrops male (verso), Sakania, Democratic Republic of the Congo,
January 13, 2014, courtesy of Nigel Voaden.

Gonimbrasia occidentalis male, Bambari, Ouaka, Republic of Central Africa,
June, 2005, courtesy of Nigel Voaden, id by Bill Oehlke.

Nigels on line images can be viewed at https://www.flickr.com/photos/nvoaden/

More specifically his Saturniidae images can be seen at https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=14191740@N08&q=Saturniidae

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