TAGOROPSIS OF THE WORLD
Tagoropsis flavinata
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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 Oberprieler's The Emperor Moths of Namibia, April 25, 2006 Updated as per Cooper & Cooper's The Emperor Moths of KwaZulu-Natal, April 25, 2006 Updated as per personal conversation with and images from Thierry Bouyer, May 2006 Updated as per personal communication with Teemu Klemetti (hecqui Uguanda: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park); November 2009 |
General ground colour of the species in this genus is yellow or orange. Moths have a relatively small hyaline forewing eyespot, encircled with a brown, and the hindwing is devoid of such marking or has only a tiny brown dot for an eyespot.
Gregarious larvae have spiny tubercles and irritating body hairs.
For the southern most species, pupation is amongst surface leaf litter.
This genus has recently been split into two subgenera, * Tagoropsis and ** Tagoropsiella. Several new species have been added to Tagoropsiella which now has a page of its own.
P indicates an image is present.
P * flavinata Walker, 1865 coastal;
South Africa (Natal),
Mozambique, ??
Malawi
natalensis Felder, 1874, is same as flavinata according to Bouyer
P * flavinata septentrionalis Bouyer, 2000
Mozambique,
Malawi,
Tanzania,
Kenya, ??
Uganda; ??
Congo
P * genoviefae Rougeot, 1950 Gabon, Cameroon, DR Congo; ?? PR Congo
centralis, Dufrane, 1953, is same as genoviefae
P * hanningtoni (Butler, 1883)
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Tanzania,
Malawi,
Zimbabwe,
Zambia,
South Africa,
Victoria, Nyanza,
Congo; ??
Mozambique,
juncta Strand, 1912 is same as hanningtoni
songeana Strand, 1911 is same as hanningtoni
nzoiana, Stoneham, 1933, is same as hanningtoni
Check the next three
Tagoropsis lupina Rothschild, 1907 Type locality:
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lokolele.
Tagoropsis rubrufa Griveaud, 1964
Madagascar
Tagoropsis lambertoni (Bouvier, 1927)
Madagascar
P * hecqui Bouyer, 1989 Nyungwe,
Rwanda; Teza,
Burundi;
Democratic Republic of the Congo;
Congo; Kabale District, southwestern
Uganda (TK)
P ** ikondae Rougeot, 1973
Tanzania,
Rwanda,
Burundi,
Malawi,
Uganda; now Tagoropsiella
P ** murphyi Bouyer, 2000 southern
Tanzania,
Malawi; now Tagoropsiella
P ** nyikensis Bouyer, 2000
Malawi; now Tagoropsiella
P ** tracenlis Bouyer, 2002
Rwanda,
Burundi, ??
Uganda; now Tagoropsiella
P * rougeoti Fletcher, 1952
Democratic Republic of the Congo;
Tanzania;
Kenya; Kiyezi,
Uganda
P * sabulosa Rothschild, 1907 Kilimanjaro,
Tanzania
You will sometimes find the following species listed on the internet as Tagoropsis. They should be classified as Maltagorea.
P leporina (Oberthur, 1916)
Madagascar Maltagorea according to Bouyer; synonym of auricolor
P monsarrati (Griveaud, 1968)
Madagascar Maltagorea according to Bouyer
P ornata (Griveaud, 1962)
southern Africa Madagascar, Maltagorea according to Bouyer
P subocellata (Butler, 1880) Batsileo-Land, southern
Madagascar Maltagorea according to Bouyer; synonym of fusicolor
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