HOLOCERINA OF THE WORLD
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Updated as per Pinhey's Emperor Moths of South and South-Central Africa, 1972, January 7, 2006 Updated as per Bouyer's Catalogue of African Saturniidae, 1999, January 7, 2006 Updated as per Cooper's The Emperor Moths of KwaZulu-Natal, 2002, January 7, 2006 Updated as per personal communication with Rolf Oberprieler, 2004-2005 Updated as per personal communication with Rodolphe Rougerie, December 15, 2005 Updated as per personal communication with Thierry Bouyer, May, 2006 |
Larvae, courtesy of Leroy Simon, show considerable colour variation as they move through various instars (third - fifth):
P indicates an image is available.
P agomensis
(Karsch, 1896) possibly Transvaal in
South Africa,
Zambia,
Zimbabwe, (probably
Mozambique),
Malawi,
Tanzania,
Angola,
People's Republic of the Congo,
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Gabon,
Central African Republic, west
equatorial Africa (??
Togo,
Ghana,
Benin,
Nigeria,
Cameroon,
Equatorial Guinea)
P angulata
(Aurivillius, 1893)
Ivory Coast,
Gabon,
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
People's Republic of the Congo,
Cameroon,
Central African Republic,
Tanzania,
Uganda
N angulata biokoensis, Darge, 1991,
Equatorial Guinea: Bioko Island
P angulata istsariensis
Stoneham, 1962
Kenya,
Burundi,
Tanzania,
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Rwanda,
Uganda; now with full species status
N digennariana
Darge, 2008
Ethiopia, Shashemene (Arsi), 2000 m., July
P guineensis
(Strand, 1912)
Equatorial Guinea
P intermedia
Rougeot, 1978
Malawi,
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Tanzania,
Kenya
P istsariensis
Stoneham, 1962
Kenya,
Burundi,
Tanzania,
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Rwanda,
Uganda; now with full species status
P menieri
Rougeot, 1973
Djibouti = Afars and Issas,
Ethiopia,
Kenya
P micropteryx
(Hering, 1949)
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Cameroon,
Central African Republic
N nilotica
(Jordan, 1922)
Tanzania, Blue Nile,
Uganda
N occidentalis
Bouyer, 2008
Guinea Conakry;
Ivory Coast;
Ghana;
Sierra Leone;
Liberia;
Gambia;
Guinea-Bissau
P orientalis
Bouyer, 2001
Tanzania; probably
Kenya
Holocerina orinoptera ??
P prosti
Rougeot, 1978 Upper Volta,
Burkina Faso;
Ivory Coast
P rhodesiensis
(Janse, 1918)
Rhodesia == Zimbabwe,
Malawi,
Tanzania,
Zambia
P rougeoti Bouyer, 1997
Cameroon,
Central African Republic
P smilax
(Westwood, 1849)
Swaziland,
South Africa,
Malawi,
Democratic Republic of the Congo, possibly to
Kenya and
Uganda
P smilax basquini
Darge, 1986
Tanzania,
Kenya,
Central African Republic,
? Burkina Faso
P wensis
J.Bouyer & R. Rougerie, 2005
Burkina Faso,
Cameroon,
Nigeria
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