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LepiMAP:   10740
Province:   Western Cape
Country:   South Africa
Locus:   3323DC
Observer:   Blackshaw J.
Date of record:   2007-00-27
Number of photos:   1
Notes:  
Last updated:   2021-04-03 14:07:15
Sp. code:   416120
Species name:   Bicyclus safitza safitza
Common name:   Black-haired bush brown -- Swart bosbruintjie
Family:   NYMPHALIDAE
Record status:   QUESTIONABLE
Collector's species id:  
Institution:   ADU-UCT
Record URL:   https://vmus.adu.org.za/?vm=LepiMAP-10740
Links:   • Locus: Summary | Records       • Species: Records | Distribution map
VM-number: 10740 - photo: 1

Comments by the Expert Panel on this record:

Comment number:   1
By:   Peter Webb
Comment:   My Guess is a female , if so ,it is way south of range.
Date:   2010-04-05 22:45:54
Species name:   Bicyclus anynana anynana -- Squinting bush brown; Skeeloog bosbruintjie
Species code:   415900
Comment number:   2
By:   Steve Woodhall
Comment:   Impossible to tell without the eyespot; needs ground truthing if it is deemed to be anynana
Date:   2010-05-22 21:43:15
Species name:  
Species code:   0
Comment number:   3
By:   Andre Coetzer
Comment:   I think it is a B.safitsa. The non-straight line was the same thing that confused us with Port St Johns specimens, and those turned out to be B.safitsa. From the Cape it can only really be B.safitsa
Date:   2010-07-09 19:49:37
Species name:   Bicyclus safitza safitza -- Black-haired bush brown; Swart bosbruintjie
Species code:   416120
Comment number:   4
By:   Fanie Rautenbach
Comment:  
Date:   2021-04-03 14:07:15
Species name:   Bicyclus safitza safitza -- Black-haired bush brown; Swart bosbruintjie
Species code:   416120

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