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Dacalana penicilligera
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Description
28. Dacalana penicilligera (de Niceville, 1890) (Double-tufted Royal)
Remarks. A single individual was sighted from Panisagar till 03.v.2016, inside a forest patch (24°17’6” N & 92°9’20” E, ca. 61 m above msl.) near roadsides. Later several observations were made in Rowa Wildlife Sanctuary. This species is rare throughout the state, but it can be seen from March onwards in the present locality.
Current known distribution. Bangladesh, Myanmar, India (West Bengal to Northeast India) (Van Gasse 2013; Varshney & Smetacek 2015).
Notes
Published as part of Bhowmik, Suman, 2021, Fifty-one new additions to the butterfly (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) fauna of Tripura, North-east India, pp. 35-60 in Revista Chilena de Entomología (Rev. Chil. Entomol.) (Rev. Chil. Entomol.) 47 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.35249/rche.47.1.21.04, http://zenodo.org/record/10950112
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Dacalana
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- de Niceville
- Species
- penicilligera
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dacalana penicilligera (Niceville, 1890) sec. Bhowmik, 2021
References
- Van Gasse, P. (2013) Butterflies of India-annotated checklist. Butterflies of India, Kruibeke, Belgium, 161 pp.
- Varshney, R. K. and Smetacek, P. (2015) A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal and Indinov Publishing, New Delhi, ii + pp. 261, 8 pl.