GONIMBRASIA OF THE WORLD

Gonimbrasia belina courtesy of Leroy Simon.

GONIMBRASIA BUTLER, 1878

See Imbrasia Genus also as well as Nudaurelia Genus and Acathacampa and Angelica Genera.

Gonimbrasia is sometimes classed a subgenus of Imbrasia.

There are many species from other genera listed as Gonimbrasia on the internet. Below the Gonimbrasia listing I have included them with their proper genera.

P indicates an image is available.

This page has been updated to reflect listings in Thierry Bouyer's Catalogue of African Saturniidae.

I suspect many of the subspecies currently listed under belina will someday be synonymized. A few may be elevated to full species status as may be the case with cocaulti. There is probably little to differentiate them other than geography.

Listing of Gonimbrasia

P alcestris Weymer, 1907 Usambara, Tanzania
scheveni Lemaire, 1974 is same as alcestris
N Gon. allardiana Bouyer, 1999 Zambia
N balachowskyi Rougeot, 1973 Djibouti (Afars and the Issas), eastern Africa
P belina Westwood, 1849 southern and eastern Africa: Malawi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana.
junodi Oberthur, 1910 is same as belina
sardane Sonthonnax, 1901 is same as belina
N belina abayana Rougeot, 1977 Ethiopia
P belina osiris Druce, 1896 Tanzania (TB), southern Kenya
N belina annulata Bouvier, 1936 Transvaal, South Africa
N belina cocaulti Darge & Terral, 1992 Kenya
N belina felderi Rothschild, 1895 Bogos, Abessinien = Ethiopia and/or Eritrea
N belina deborah (Weymer, 1886) Mozambique
N belina huebneri Kirby, 1877 eastern Africa
N belina ufipana Strand, 1911 southwestern Tanzania, near lake Tanganyika
N belina ukerewensis Rebel, 1922 Lake Victoria region near Uganda- Tanzania- Kenya border
N birbiri (Bouvier, 1929) Abyssinien= Ethiopia
N cocaulti Darge and Terral, 1992 Kenya
P congolensis Bouvier, 1927 Democratic Republic of the Congo
P conradsi Rebel, 1906 Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Rwanda
ruandana Gaede, 1927 is same as conradsi
jefferyi Bouvier, 1930 is same as conradsi; Tanzania, Victoria Lake, Ukerewe Island.
ochracea Rebel, 1917 is same as conradsi
bijuga Bouvier, 1929 is same as conradsi
parva Bouvier, 1930 is same as conradsi
P desena R. Vinciguerra, 2009, Zambia: Kafue
N elgoniana Darge, 2010 W. Kenya, Mt. Elgon; August
N entebbeensis Darge, 2010 Uganda, Entebbe; October
N ellisoni Lemaire, 1962 Abyssinia=Ethiopia
N fletcheri Rougeot, 1960 Ethiopia
N fucata Rougeot, 1978 Ethiopia
P godarti Lemaire, 1971 ?? Tanzania; Cameroon (MC), Democratic Republic of the Congo (TB), Congo (TB), NW Zambia (TB)
P hecate Rougeot, 1955 Congo, Burkina Faso, Benin, Kenya, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo
P hoehnelii (Rogenhoffer, 1891) Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya (TB)
P kasaiensi Bouvier, 1926 Congo kasaiensi = rectilineata
N mbiziana Darge, 2010 Tanzania, Rukwa Region, Mbizi Mts. Forest Reserve, 07°53.576'S 031°14.733'E, 2236 m.; November
N miranda Darge, 2005 Tanzania
N murphyiana Darge, 2010 N. Malawi, Mt. Uzumara, 6000 ft.; January
P occidentalis Rothschild, 1907 Gambia, Burkina Faso, Chad, Central African Republic, Kenya (TB)
vinosa (Riel, 1910) is same as occidentalis
chevalia Stoneham, 1933 is same as occidentalis
alicia Stoneham, 1933 is same as occidentalis
aniger Stoneham, 1963 is same as occidentalis
P osiris (Druce, 1896) Tanzania
P rectilineata Sonthannax, 1901 Zambia, Shaba (Katanga) Democratic Republic of the Congo (TB), North Malawi (TB), Angola, Uganda, ?? Tanzania and Western ?? Kenya
kasaiensis Bouvier, 1926 is same as rectilineata
mpalenis Sonthonnax, 1901 is same as rectilineata
richelmani Weymer, 1909 is same as rectilineata
P richelmanni Weymer, 1909 Nyassa-Gebiet, East Africa richelmanni = rectilineata
P tyrrhea (Cramer, 1777) Transvaal Highveld, Orange Free State, e. and sw. Cape Province, Namaqualand, Richtersveld in South Africa
rubra Bouvier, 1936 is same as tyrrhea
P zambesina Walker, 1865 South Africa: Natal, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Namibia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania
barcas (Maassen & Weymer, 1881) Antheraea is same as zambesina
ringleri Wichgraff, 1906 is same as zambesina
zambesia (Felder, 1874) Thyella is same as zambesina
said (Oberthur, 1878) Saturnia is same as zambesina
zanguebarica (Oberthur, 1910) Thyella is same as zambesina
rectilinea (Oberthur, 1910) Thyella is same as zambesina

Of uncertain taxonomic position are Gonimbrasia pales Weymer, 1909 (Kamerun=Cameroon, doubtful) and Gonimbrasia helena Kruck, 1939 (equatorial Africa).

The following are sometimes listed on internet sites as Gonimbrasia, but they should more properly be listed with Gonimbrasia (Nudaurelia).

P alopia Westwood, 1849 Sierre Leone, Zambia Nudaurelia
P anthinoides Rougeot, 1978 Cameroon Nudaurelia
P dione Fabricius, 1793 Guinea, Malawi, Zambia, Cameroon, Tanzania, Gabon, Uganda, Ivory Coast and Central African Republic Nudaurelia
P emini Butler, 1888 Cameroon, Cenral African Republic, Uganda Nudaurelia
P gueinzii Staudinger, 1872 South Africa Nudaurelia
P kilumilorum Darge, 2002 Njome, southwest Tanzania Nudaurelia
P krucki Hering, 1930 Tanzania, ?? Zimbabwe Nudaurelia
P macrops Rebel, 1917 Angola Nudaurelia
P melanops Bouvier, 1930 Africa Nudaurelia

The following are sometimes listed on internet sites as Gonimbrasia, but they should more properly be listed with Bunaeopsis.

P hersilia Westwood, 1849 Cameroon, Congo, Uganda Bunaeopsis
P licharbas Maassen & Weyding, 1885 Togo, Tanzania, Cameroon, Gabon, Uganda, Zambia, Kenya and tropical west Africa. Bunaeopsis
P macrophtalmus Kirby, 1881 Burkina Faso Bunaeopsis
P oubie Guerin-Meneville, 1849 Abyssinian Bunaeopsis
N rendalliana Gaede, 1927 Cenral Africa Bunaeopsis
P rothschildi Le Cerf, 1911 Easy Africa Bunaeopsis, rothschildi = oubie

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