DISTRIBUTION:

The Pseudobunaea cleopatra orientalis moth flies in Kenya according to Thierry Bouyer. Thierry indicates it likely also flies in Tanzania.

With the advent of DNA barcoding analysis (2008), many new Saturniidae species have been named, including many Pseudobunaea species from the various mountain ranges in Tanzania.

The following link, Tanzania Pseudobunaea Comparison Chart, will hopefully help me and others to determine species as they become available for posting.

I will be using information on Wiki Species and scientific journal publications to post information and write my own descriptions of the Tanzanian Pseudobunaea. If you have digital images that you can submmit with data (wingspan, elevation, date, precise location), I will do my best to confirm your ids or offer suggestions, and will incorporate your images, credited to you, into the respective files. Please help improve the scope and accuracy of this site by submitting images. All photos remain the property of respective photographers.

FLIGHT TIMES AND PREFERRED FOOD PLANTS:

The Pseudobunaea cleopatra orientalis moth flies in the month of ??

Larvae probably feed upon Caesalpiniaceae = Fabaceae and Fagus.

Pseudobunaea orientalis male (verso), Kenya, All Leps Barcode of Life:
Biodiversity Institute of Ontario.

ECLOSION, SCENTING AND MATING:

Eclosion is from underground pupae.

Both sexes fly at night with the males coming in to lights around midnight, the scenting time of the females.

EGGS, LARVAE AND PUPAE:

Listed below are primary food plant(s) and alternate food plants listed in Stephen E. Stone's Foodplants of World Saturniidae. It is hoped that this alphabetical listing followed by the common name of the foodplant will prove useful. The list is not exhaustive. Experimenting with closely related foodplants is worthwhile.

Fagus......

Beech

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