AURIVILLIUS OF THE WORLD
Updated as per Bouyer's Catalogue of African Saturniidae, 1995, February 24, 2005
Updated also as per communication with Rolf Oberprieler and Thierry Bouyer.
Updated as per personal communication with Thierry Bouyer (fuscus and orientalis), May 21, 2007
De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. 2012. Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera).
World Wide Web electronic publication (www.afromoths.net), October 9, 2012

Updated as per Saturnafrica Fascicule #15, Darge, March, 2013; January 27, 2014

AURIVILLIUS OF THE WORLD


Aurivillius triramis (Rothschild), image, copyright protected, Kirby Wolfe

AURIVILLIUS PACKARD, 1902

Aurivillius species fly in Central Africa and both aratus and triramis are taken in Cameroon.

Listing of Aurivillius

P aratus (Westwood, 1849) Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Gabon, (? Uganda), Congo, Angola, Rwanda, Burundi, (? Zambia, Malawi), (? Tanzania), Central African Republic
N cadioui Bouyer, 2008 Ethiopia
N divaricatus Bouvier, 1927 Tanzania; possibly a synonym of fuscus
N diversus Darge, 2013 Zambia
N drumonti Bouyer, 2008 Cameroon: Obout
P fuscus (Rothschild, 1895) South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, ? Namibia
N horsini Bouvier, 1927 Benin; possibly a synonym of arata
P jolyanorum Bouyer, 1999 Ivory Coast, Togo, Ghana, Cameroon, (?? Benin and Nigeria)
N lucidus Darge, 2013 Zambia
P oberthueri Bouvier, 1927 Malawi, S. Congo, Zambia, S. Tanzania
P orientalis Bouyer, 2007 Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya
Aurivillius orientalis Bouyer, 2007 from Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi replaces A. fuscus in those countries.
P seydeli (Rougeot, 1962) Congo, Malawi, (? Tanzania)
P triramis Rothschild, 1907 Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Gabon, D. R. Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda; probably Congo and probably Central African Republic
P xerophilus Rougeot, 1977 Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Kenya, Ethiopia,
(? Tanzania)
Aurivillius cliftoni, Rougeot, 1977, is same as xerophilus
N zambesianus Darge, 2013 Zambia

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