Dacalana penicilligera (de Niceville, 1890)

Bhowmik, Suman, 2021, Fifty-one new additions to the butterfly (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) fauna of Tripura, North-east India, Revista Chilena de Entomología (Rev. Chil. Entomol.) 47 (1), pp. 35-60 : 49

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.35249/rche.47.1.21.04
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:07DA43A6-7C28-4088-8371-6BB366EDDA4A
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11130285
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F1E917-6E44-6907-12A0-9EB6BA98FF2D
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Dacalana penicilligera (de Niceville, 1890)
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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).