DISTRIBUTION:

Epiphora macedoi (wingspan: males: 122mm; females: 110mm) is one of the few Attacini in Africa. Specimens have been taken in
western Angola: Cuanza Norte Province, Golungo Alto, 577m.

FLIGHT TIMES AND PREFERRED FOOD PLANTS:

Specimens have been taken in ???.

Epiphora macedoi larval hosts are unknown.

Epiphora macedoi female, Angola, Cuanza Norte Province, Golungo Alto,
110mm, on my home computer only.

ECLOSION, SCENTING AND MATING:

Epiphora cadioui females extend a scent gland from the posterior tip of the abdomen to call in the night-flying males.The pair remains coupled until the following evening.

The wings of the female are probably more rounded than those of the male.

EGGS, LARVAE, COCOONS AND PUPAE:

The cocoon is probably double walled, resembling the cocoon of the Hyalphora species.

The species name is honourific for collector Mário Macedo.

The original description was pucllished by Darge, Ph.; Luis F. Mendes & A. Bivar de Sousa, 2006, in Lambillinea CVI, 3 Sept. Tome I: 391-394.

Larval Food Plants

It is hoped that this alphabetical listing followed by the common name of an anticipated foodplant will prove useful. The list is not exhaustive. Experimenting with closely related foodplants is worthwhile.

Discoglypremna caloneura......

Euphorbiaceae

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