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Leucanella
Sign in to saveLeucanella is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Claude Lemaire in 1969.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 48
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Saturniidae
- Collections
- YPM, DMNS, MNHN, USNM
- Recorded in
- Guatemala, Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina, BréSil, Guyane FrançAise, Venezuela
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Leucanella is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Claude Lemaire in 1969.
==Species== The genus includes the following species: Leucanella acutissima (Walker, 1865) Leucanella anikae Meister & Brechlin, 2002 Leucanella apollinairei (Dognin, 1923) Leucanella aspera (R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874) Leucanella atahualpa Meister & Naumann, 2006 Leucanella bivius (Bouvier, 1927) Leucanella contei (Lemaire, 1967) Leucanella contempta (Lemaire, 1967) Leucanella flammans (Schaus, 1900) Leucanella fusca (Walker, 1855) Leucanella gibbosa (Conte, 1906) Leucanella heisleri (E. D. Jones, 1908) Leucanella hosmera (Schaus, 1941) Leucanella janeira (Westwood, 1854) Leucanella lama (Berg, 1883) Leucanella leucane (Geyer, 1837) Leucanella lynx (Bouvier, 1930) Leucanella maasseni (Moeschler, 1872) Leucanella memusae (Walker, 1855) Leucanella memusoides Lemaire, 1973 Leucanella muelleri (Draudt, 1929) Leucanella newmani (Lemaire, 1967) Leucanella nyctimene (Latreille, 1832) Leucanella saturata (Walker, 1855) Leucanella stuarti (W. Rothschild & Jordan, 1901) Leucanella viettei (Lemaire, 1967) Leucanella viridescens (Walker, 1855) Leucanella yungasensis Meister & Naumann, 2006
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