Atlas of African Neuroptera and Megaloptera

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LacewingMAP:   10793
Province:   Central Province
Country:   Botswana
Locus:   2025AC
Observer:   du Plessis D
Date of record:   2018-02-18
Number of photos:   1
Notes:   Indoors
Last updated:   2020-12-03 13:24:43
Sp. code:   329520
Species name:   Palpares sobrinus
Common name:  
Family:   Myrmeleontidae
Record status:   ACCEPTED
Collector's species id:   Palpares
Institution:   ADU-UCT
Record URL:   https://vmus.adu.org.za/?vm=LacewingMAP-10793
Links:   • Locus: Summary | Records       • Species: Records | Distribution map
VM-number: 10793 - photo: 1

Comments by the Expert Panel on this record:

Comment number:   1
By:   Mervyn Mansell
Comment:   Fairly common in grassland in the northern parts of South Africa; Limpopo, North West, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, KZN. Has not been recorded in the Western, Eastern or Northern Cape. Part of a species complex that extends into central and eastern Africa. Nothing known about its immature stages. It is also known from Botswana, Zimbabwe and Swaziland.
Date:   2018-04-08 15:33:08
Species name:   Palpares sobrinus
Species code:   329520

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