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Dactyloceras lucina (Drury, 1782)

Scientific name TypeStatus Gender Museum Description Country Locality Publication URL
Dactyloceras lucina (Drury, 1782) Lectotype ANIC Lectotype ♂, designated by U. Brosch et al. (2002: 194), ANIC. Sierra Leone Sierra Leone. Brosch U., Naumann S. & Meister F. 2002. Notes on the African genus Dactyloceras (Lepidoptera: Brahmaeidae). page 46; pl. 34, fig. 1
Scientific name Country Province Publication URL
Dactyloceras lucina (Drury, 1782) Cameroon Brosch U., Naumann S. & Meister F. 2002. Notes on the African genus Dactyloceras (Lepidoptera: Brahmaeidae). page 192
Dactyloceras lucina (Drury, 1782) Central African Republic Brosch U., Naumann S. & Meister F. 2002. Notes on the African genus Dactyloceras (Lepidoptera: Brahmaeidae). page 192
Dactyloceras lucina (Drury, 1782) Congo page P. Basquin
Dactyloceras lucina (Drury, 1782) Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Conte A. 1911. Essai de classification des lépidoptères producteurs de soie. Bombycides. page 79 (as tridentata)
Dactyloceras lucina (Drury, 1782) Côte d'Ivoire Naumann S. 2008. Saturniidae, Brahmaeidae. – In: Kühne, L. (Ed.) Butterflies and moth diversity of the Kakamega forest (Kenya). page 115
Dactyloceras lucina (Drury, 1782) Equatorial Guinea Strand E. 1912k. Zoologische Ergebnisse der Expedition des Herrn G. Tessmann nach Süd-Kamerun und Spanisch Guinea. Lepidoptera I. (Saturniidae, Brahmaeidae, Striphnopterygidae, Sphingidae, Notodontidae, Syntomididae [sic], Hypsidae und Agaristidae). page 148
Dactyloceras lucina (Drury, 1782) Gabon page P. Basquin
Dactyloceras lucina (Drury, 1782) Ghana Butler A. G. 1871b. Descriptions of some new species of exotic Lepidoptera. page xli (as swanzii)
Dactyloceras lucina (Drury, 1782) Guinea Naumann S. 2008. Saturniidae, Brahmaeidae. – In: Kühne, L. (Ed.) Butterflies and moth diversity of the Kakamega forest (Kenya). page 113 (as swanzii)
Dactyloceras lucina (Drury, 1782) Kenya Naumann S. 2008. Saturniidae, Brahmaeidae. – In: Kühne, L. (Ed.) Butterflies and moth diversity of the Kakamega forest (Kenya). page 115
Dactyloceras lucina (Drury, 1782) Nigeria Butler A. G. 1878d. Descriptions of some new genera and species of Lepidoptera from Old Calabar and Madagascar. page 455 (as swanzii)
Dactyloceras lucina (Drury, 1782) Senegal page P. Basquin
Dactyloceras lucina (Drury, 1782) Sierra Leone Drury D. 1782. Illustrations of Natural History, wherein are exhibited upwards of two hundred and forty figures of Exotic Insects, according to their different genera, very few of which have hitherto been figured by any author, being engraved and coloured from (etc.) page 46
Dactyloceras lucina (Drury, 1782) South Africa Butler A. G. 1869–1874. Lepidoptera Exotica, or descriptions and illustrations of exotic Lepidoptera. page 78 (as swanzii)
Dactyloceras lucina (Drury, 1782) Tanzania page P. Basquin
Dactyloceras lucina (Drury, 1782) Uganda Naumann S. 2008. Saturniidae, Brahmaeidae. – In: Kühne, L. (Ed.) Butterflies and moth diversity of the Kakamega forest (Kenya). page 115
Dactyloceras lucina (Drury, 1782) Zambia Naumann S. 2008. Saturniidae, Brahmaeidae. – In: Kühne, L. (Ed.) Butterflies and moth diversity of the Kakamega forest (Kenya). page 115
Plant note:

Description of the larva in A. Schultze (1914: 120–121).

Scientific name Plant Plant Family Country Publication URL
Dactyloceras lucina (Drury, 1782) Ceropegia conrathii Apocynaceae Cameroon Schultze A. 1914. Zur Kenntnis der ersten Stände von einigen west- und zentralafrikanischen Heteroceren. page 121
Dactyloceras lucina (Drury, 1782) Harungana madagascariensis Clusiaceae Sevastopulo D. G. 1976. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2. Moths (Heterocera). page 99
Scientific name Parasitoid Parasitoid Family Country Publication URL
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Dactyloceras tridentata (Conte, 1911) (Conte, 1911) species Synonym Brahmaea tridentata