''Decachorda pomona'' is a species of

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family

Saturniidae Saturniidae, commonly known as saturniids, is a family of Lepidoptera with an estimated 2,300 described species. The family contains some of the largest species of moths in the world. Notable members include the emperor moths, royal moths, and gi ...

first described by

Gustav Weymer Gustav Weymer (1833–1914) was a German entomologist. He described many new taxa of butterflies from specimens collected by Alphons Stübel in South America. His own collections and those he worked on are conserved in Museum für Naturkund ...

in 1892. It is known from central and eastern Africa. This species has a body length of , the length of the forewings is . The forewings are reddish yellow with a white spot surrounded by brown in the middle. A fine brown line crosses its forewing.(in German
Weymer, G. W. 1892. Exotische Lepidopteren VI. Aus dem Afrikanischen Faunagebiet. ''Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung'' 53(4–5):113
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References

Saturniidae Moths described in 1892 Lepidoptera of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Lepidoptera of Uganda Lepidoptera of Malawi Lepidoptera of Tanzania Lepidoptera of Zambia Lepidoptera of Zimbabwe Moths of Sub-Saharan Africa {{Saturniidae-stub