ROHANIELLA OF THE WORLD

Updated as per Pinhey's Emperor Moths of South and South-Central Africa, 1972, April 25, 2006
Updated as per Bouyer's Catalogue of African Saturniidae, 1999, April 25, 2006
Updated as per Natural History Museum website, April 27, 2006

ROHANIELLA OF THE WORLD

Rohaniella pygmaea male, South Africa, courtesy of Joan Young.

ROHANIELLA BOUVIER, 1927

The Rohaniella belong to the Bunaeini tribe of Subfamily Saturniinae of the Family Saturniidae. These moths fly in Africa.

Pearly white, narrowly oval eggs are laid in small clusters of 2-4 on the undersides of foodplant leaves.
Gregarious purple larvae in first two instars become solitary and green as they develop up to 50 mm in length. They are well camouflaged with a yellow lateral line on foliage-green bodies.

Pupation is in the soil.
Rohaniella pygmaea larva to right.

P indicates an image is available.

Listing of Rohaniella
P pygmaea (Maassen & Weyding, 1885) Quango and Transvaal, South Africa; Zimbabwe, central and eastern Africa, Namibia, northwest to Burkina Faso ??
N jebbae Sharp, 1899 Niger, Guinea
guineensis Bouvier, 1927, = jebbae, according to Thierry Bouyer's 1995 catalogue

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