Southern Cat's Eye Emperor Moth

Thanks anyway ;-)...

Na, na, do not exaggerate, Tina... If research is adding a bulk of links, OK, my job is done. And since I daily have to earn my ranger patch, that's my job. And it was a pleasure and leasure job!

Thanks Martin. My arguments are just what my eyes see. If the range, which has in many cases in my opinion the weakest evidence because of the reliability of the sources and information, would also match, the better ;-)...

You might be right bayucca, also the maps at the boldsystem website seem to be in favour of Aurivilius aratus fuscus, as those specimens were caught in the same area, as to Aurivilius triramis seems to be more to the east side of Africa. It would also explain the antennae, as the Aurivilius aratus fuscus has much wider antennae. Anyway, good job doing research bayucca!

Saturniidae, Saturniinae, Aurivilius sp. and in my eyes Aurivilius fuscus or Aurivillius aratus fuscus not Aurivilius triramis. At first sight they really look identical. If you look very carefully and compare the 2 candidates my argument for being Fuscus and not Triramis is the "almost" straight dark line in the middle of the forewing in yours and Fuscus and a somekind zig-zagged line in Triramis. In some examples this line is very thin and also in Fuscus a little bit towards zig-zagging, but still a tendency to be "straight" and not zig-zagged in that extension like as it is seen in Triramis. Fuscus: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qHWEJQBO8vI/ULHMdGCUNxI/AAAAAAAAdQo/CZTbs6TY9XQ/s1600/M_Saturniidae_AurivilliusFuscus_EmperorMoth_IMG_31189.JPG https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/41644009 http://www.africanmoths.com/pages/SATURNIIDAE/SATURNIINAE/aurivillius%20fusca.html http://www.saturniidae-web.de/Aurivillius%20fuscus.htm http://fotoskool.co.za/photo/aurivillius-fuscus-rothschild-emperor?commentId=3171326%3AComment%3A417784&xg_source=activity http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=94553 Triramis: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=93635 http://www.saturniidae-web.de/Aurivillius%20triramis.htm http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/kwatriramis.htm http://www.africanmoths.com/pages/SATURNIIDAE/SATURNIINAE/aurivillius%20triramis.htm http://www.flickr.com/photos/31963237@N00/155514018/ http://www.galerie-insecte.org/galerie/view.php?adr=.%2Fimage%2Fdos55%2Ftemp%2Fdsc02939.1.jpg Do you agree, folks??

Sweet spotting! What a large beauty!

Those two look very similar to me so difficult to say which one is yours. Martijn probably right.

You can also look at these two links for comparison. http://www.africanmoths.com/pages/SATURNIIDAE/SATURNIINAE/aurivillius%20triramis.htm http://www.africanmoths.com/pages/SATURNIIDAE/SATURNIINAE/aurivillius%20fusca.html

Aurivilius fuscus is another option, but this one seemed to match a bit better to me