Lobobunaea angasana, Giant Silkmoth from Mozambique

Subject: Caterpillar
Location: Northern Mozambique
April 20, 2015 11:00 am
Hi, I found this guy on the ground in Nampula, Mozambique. We can’t find anything that it will eat and we are wondering what to feed it and what it will turn into. We have it in a bug box to hopefully watch the metamorphosis. We also found an amazing moth we’d love to identify. Thank you!
Signature: mj

Lobobunaea angasana
Lobobunaea angasana

Dear mj,
The Giant Silkmoth is a much easier identification than the Caterpillar, so we are starting there.  Your moth, which we identified on Bizland, is
Lobobunaea angasana.

Lobobunaea angasana
Lobobunaea angasana

 

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