Subject: Giant silk moth
Geographic location of the bug: Sabie, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Date: 01/03/2020
Time: 02:33 PM EDT
Your letter to the bugman: Saw this moth at a take out drive through in a small town called Sabie in the the province Mpumalanga in South Africa. Eastern part of the country. Google image search did not yield much information
How you want your letter signed: Shirley
Dear Shirley,
This is indeed a Giant Silk Moth in the family Saturniidae, and we believe we have correctly identified it as Cirina forda thanks to images posted online on African Moths and on iNaturalist where it is called a Pallid Emperor Moth.