| Eudaemonia | |
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| Eudaemonia troglophylla | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Saturniidae |
| Subfamily: | Saturniinae |
| Genus: | Eudaemonia Hübner, 1819 |
| Type species | |
| Eudaemonia argus (Fabricius, 1781) | |
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Eudaemonia is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae. They are native to Sub-Saharan Africa and have remarkable, extremely elongated "tails" on the hindwings.
The genus includes the following species:
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Eudaemonia argus is a species of moth in the family Saturniidae. It is found in Africa, in such areas as Gabon, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Togo, Guinea and Benin. Adults have wings with shades of pinkish to brownish, with several small eyespots on the hindwings; the males have much longer and thinner "tails" on the hindwings than the females.
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