Pseudantheraea discrepans
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Saturniidae
Genus: Pseudantheraea
Species:
P. discrepans
Binomial name
Pseudantheraea discrepans
(Butler, 1878)

Pseudantheraea discrepans is a species of moth of the family Saturniidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878. It is found in Africa, from Ivory Coast to Uganda in the north and from Angola to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the south.

Larvae have been recorded on Entandrophragma angolense. They feed gregariously.

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  • "Insect and host plant species of Central Africa: scientific names". Food and Agriculture Organization
  • "Pseudantheraea discrepans". Saturniidae World
  • Bouyer, Thierry; Lampe, Rudolph; Nässig, Wolfgang (January 2004). "The life history of Pseudantheraea discrepans (Butler, 1878), with an ecological comparison with P. imperator Rougeot, 1962 (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae, Saturniinae, Urotini)" (PDF). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo. 25 (1/2): 27–37.


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