African Moths Gambia


 

Pseudobunaea tyrrhena (Westwood, 1849)

Cat's Paw Emperor.

SYNONYMS
Saturnia tyrrhena,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 31
alinda, bjornstadi, bondwana, bungaensis, callista, claryi, cyrene, deaconi, elucida, epithyrena, geita, heyeri, illustris, irius, iyayiensis, kidugalensis, kituloensis, kiyamyulwa, latafenestrata, magingoensis, mbiziana, megane, miriakambana, montuosa, mwangomoi, natalensis, pallens, paratyrrhena, santini, sjostedti, tyrrhena,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, DRCongo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Trema bracteolata, Trema orientalis, Fagus, Ekebergia capensis, Ekebergia meyeri, Pshchotria capensis, Celtis africana, Celtis kraussiana, Celtis pallida, Ulmus, Grumilea capensis, Albizia, Acacia sassa,

Pseudobunaea tyrrhena
Upperside
 
Upperside (RW)
 
Upperside
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Photo: Oxford Museum
  Photo: Charaxes  
Photo: Oxford Museum
Underside (CM)
 

Larva (NA)

 
Live (CM)
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Photo: A. Guyonnet
 
Photo: H. Roland
 
Photo: A. Guyonnet
Live (ZW)
 
Live (DRC)
 
Live (LR)
Pseudobunaea tyrrhena
 
Pseudobunaea tyrrhena
 
Pseudobunaea tyrrhena
Photo B. Wursten
 
Photo: N. Voaden
 
Photo: M. Stanton
 
Distribution Map
 
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