I knew the moths would be big. With seventeen centimeter long caterpillars, they could not have been anything else but big. The female in the picture has a twelve centimeter wingspan. That makes them the largest Lasiocampid I have bred so far. Quite an impressive species which is widely distributed throughout tropical Africa, from Guinee in the west to Kenya in the east. There distribution does not reach further south then Equatorial Guinea and Uganda. In captivity they brood continuously, but because of the slow growing caterpillars, you will not get more then two flights per year.
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| Gonometa nysa female - Origin: Kenya |
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| Gonometa nysa male - Origin: Kenya |
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| Gonometa nysa male - Origin: Kenya |
