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LepiMAP:   660658
Province:   Eastern Cape
Country:   South Africa
Locus:   3326BB
Observer:   Khoza Marina
Date of record:   2018-10-21
Number of photos:   2
Notes:   Dixeia pigea on Catharanthus Roseus
Last updated:   2020-12-03 13:24:46
Sp. code:   407190
Species name:   Dixeia charina charina
Common name:   African ant-heap white -- Peper witjie
Family:   PIERIDAE
Record status:   ACCEPTED
Collector's species id:  
Institution:   ADU-UCT
Record URL:   https://vmus.adu.org.za/?vm=LepiMAP-660658
Links:   • Locus: Summary | Records       • Species: Records | Distribution map
VM-number: 660658 - photo: 1
VM-number: 660658 - photo: 2

Comments by the Expert Panel on this record:

Comment number:   1
By:   Fanie Rautenbach
Comment:   I will rather go with charina. Pigea is very rare this far south in the Eastern Cape.
Date:   2018-10-22 09:32:54
Species name:   Dixeia charina charina -- African ant-heap white; Peper witjie
Species code:   407190

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