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Binomial name: Pseudimbrasia deyrollii (Thomson, 1858)  — *Note: the original description really described them as ‘deyrollii’ and not ‘deyrollei’. But this is likely to be a spelling mistake as the name was  intented to be deyrollei, not deyrollii.
Common name: No official common name. “Deyrolle’s emperor moth” could be used
Family:  Saturniidae
Geographical range: Africa, including but probably not limited to Angola, Burkina Fasso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, DRCongo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Host plants:  Erythrophleum, Sapium, Acacia, Quercus (oak), Prunus (cherry), likely feeds on a wide range of tropical legumes (Fabaceae) and deciduous trees and shrubs.
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Wingspan:  135mm-190mm
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Photography: All specimens photographed here were part of a captive breeding experiment in the Netherlands (Europe) and are live specimens. Although captive livestock does not look very different from wild animals, they are not wholly representative of wild animals since captive livestock is prone to exhibiting unnatural variations and sizes. I am a moth breeder from the Netherlands that has bred hundreds of species. This website only features the imagoes of Lepidoptera I photographed and not the early life stages.
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