Pseudoludia nyungwe

Updated as per Bouyer's Catalogue of African Saturniidae, 1999, May 3, 2006
Updated as per Natural History Museum website, May 3, 2006
Updated as per personal communication with Teemu Klemetti (P. nyungwe from Bwindi Impenetrable National Park,
southwestern Uganda); November 1, 2009

Pseudoludia nyungwe
Bouyer, 1988

Pseudoludia nyungwe male, 63mm, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park,
southwestern Uganda, courtesy of Teemu Klemetti.

TAXONOMY:

Superfamily: Bombycoidea Latreille, 1802
Family: Saturniidae Boisduval, [1837] 1834
Subfamily: Saturniinae Boisduval, [1837] 1834
Tribe: Micragonini Cockerell in Packard, 1914 (1902)
Genus: Pseudoludia, Strand, 1911

MIDI MUSIC

"Moon River"
copyright C. Odenkirk

ON.OFF

DISTRIBUTION:

Pseudoludia nyungwe (wingspan: males: 63 mm; females: probably larger) flies in Nyungwe, in
southwestern Rwanda,
southwestern Uganda: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (TK); and
probably in northwestern Tanzania near the border with Rwanda, and
probably in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo in Nord Kivu and Sud Kivu provinces.

T. Bouyer (1999) indicates this moth, formerly treated as a subspecies of P. suavis, is elevated to full species status.

EGGS, LARVAE, PUPAE, COCOONS:

Larval Food Plants

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.

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The suggested pronunciations, on this page and on other pages, are primarily put forward to assist those who hear with internal ears as they read.

There are many collectors from different countries whose intonations and accents would be different.

Some of the early describers/namers chose genus and species names indicating some character of the insect, but more often, they simply chose names from Greek or Roman mythology or history.

Those species names which end in "ensis" indicate a specimen locale, and those which end in "i", pronounced "eye", honour a contempory friend/collector/etc.

"Ludia" is from the Latin word for player and may have been chosen for the erratic (playful), daytime flight of the males. Pseudoludia means 'false Ludia' or 'Ludia-like'.

The species name "nyungwe" indicates the collecting location in Nyungwe, Rwanda.