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Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)

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Higher taxa:	Saturniidae (family)/ Saturniinae (subfamily)/ Attacini (tribe)/ Epiphora (genus)/
Status:	Accepted
Authorship:	(Druce, 1886)
Citation:	Attacus albidus, sp. n.
Original genus:	Attacus
Publication:	Druce H. 1886. Descriptions of some new species of Heterocera from tropical Africa.
Journal:	Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
Volume:	1886
Issue:	3
Pagination:	409; pl. 37, fig. 1
URL:	https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28985478

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Epiphora albidus (1)

Scientific name	TypeStatus	Gender	Museum	Description	Country	Locality	Publication	URL
Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)	Holotype	♂	NHMUK	Holotype ♂, NHMUK.	Cameroon	Cameroon, W Africa, Cameroon Mts.

Scientific name	Country	Province	Publication
Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)	Angola		Rougeot P.-C. 1962a. Les Lépidoptères de l'Afrique noire occidentale. Attacidés (= Saturniidés). page 188
Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)	Cameroon		Druce H. 1886. Descriptions of some new species of Heterocera from tropical Africa. page 409
Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)	Central African Republic		Basquin P. & Faravel G. 2022. Les Saturnidés du Gabon. Catalogue illustré des Saturniidae du Gabon. Tome 2: Buneini, Attacini. page 91
Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)	Congo		Darge Ph. 2011d. Contribution to the Lepidoptera biodiversity in Africa, II: Lepidoptera of the swamp forest in the region of Ouesso (north of the Congo Brazaville Republic). page 34
Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)	Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	North Kivu	Dufrane A. 1953b. Saturniidae d'Afrique. page 234 (as rufa)
Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)	Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	West Kasai	Bouvier E. L. 1927d. Saturniens du Musée du Congo belge. page 168
Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)	Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	Katanga	Stoneham H. F. 1962. A provisional check list of the African Saturnidae [sic] in the museum collections. Parts 1–5. page [15] (as semialba)
Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)	Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	Bas Congo	Dufrane A. 1953b. Saturniidae d'Afrique. page 234
Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)	Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	Orientale	Holland W. J. 1920. Lepidoptera of the Congo, being a systematic list of the butterflies and moths collected by the American Museum of Natural History Congo Expedition, together with descriptions of some hitherto undescribed species. page 315
Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)	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 140
Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)	Gabon		Rougeot P.-C. 1947. Notes sur les papillons gabonais du genre Drepanoptera Roths. page 73
Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)	Ghana		Darge Ph. 1969. Lépidoptères Attacidae de la région de Franceville (Gabon). page 926
Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)	Guinea		page LepIndex
Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)	Kenya		page LepIndex
Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)	Nigeria		Rougeot P.-C. 1955. Les Attacides (Saturnidae) de l'Equateur Africain français. page 90
Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)	Rwanda		Basquin P. & Faravel G. 2022. Les Saturnidés du Gabon. Catalogue illustré des Saturniidae du Gabon. Tome 2: Buneini, Attacini. page 91
Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)	Sudan		page LepIndex
Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)	Tanzania		Stoneham H. F. 1962. A provisional check list of the African Saturnidae [sic] in the museum collections. Parts 1–5. page [15] (as semialba)
Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)	Uganda		Rougeot P.-C. 1955. Les Attacides (Saturnidae) de l'Equateur Africain français. page 90
Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)	Zimbabwe		Stoneham H. F. 1962. A provisional check list of the African Saturnidae [sic] in the museum collections. Parts 1–5. page [15] (as semialba)

Plant note:

Description of the larva in A. Schultze (1914: 148).

Schultze A. 1914. Zur Kenntnis der ersten Stände von einigen west- und zentralafrikanischen Heteroceren.

Scientific name	Plant	Plant Family	Country	Publication
Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)	Fagara macrophylla	Rutaceae	Gabon	Rougeot P.-C. 1955. Les Attacides (Saturnidae) de l'Equateur Africain français. page 89
Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)	Maesopsis eminii	Rhamnaceae		Sevastopulo D. G. 1976. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2. Moths (Heterocera). page 96
Epiphora albidus (Druce, 1886)	Paullinia sp.	Sapindaceae	Cameroon	Schultze A. 1914. Zur Kenntnis der ersten Stände von einigen west- und zentralafrikanischen Heteroceren. page 148

Scientific name	Parasitoid	Parasitoid Family	Country	Publication	URL

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Scientific Name	Authorship	Rank	Status	Original Combination

Scientific Name	Authorship	Rank	Status	Original Combination
Epiphora noigamagetana (Stoneham, 1933)	(Stoneham, 1933)	species	Synonym	Drepanoptera noigamagetana
Epiphora paradoxa Dufrane, 1953	Dufrane, 1953	species	Misapplied	Epiphora paradoxa
Epiphora rufa Dufrane, 1953	Dufrane, 1953	species	Misapplied	Epiphora rufa
Epiphora semialba (Rebel, 1915)	(Rebel, 1915)	species	Synonym	Drepanoptera semialba