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LacewingMAP:   9185
Province:   Gauteng
Country:   South Africa
Locus:   2627BB
Observer:   Labuschagne Jacobus
Date of record:   2015-10-15
Number of photos:   2
Notes:   Photographed under a verandah light
Last updated:   2020-12-03 13:24:43
Sp. code:   325600
Species name:   Sympherobius sp.
Common name:  
Family:   Hemerobiidae
Record status:   ACCEPTED
Collector's species id:  
Institution:   ADU-UCT
Record URL:   https://vmus.adu.org.za/?vm=LacewingMAP-9185
Links:   • Locus: Summary | Records       • Species: Records | Distribution map
VM-number: 9185 - photo: 1
VM-number: 9185 - photo: 2

Comments by the Expert Panel on this record:

Comment number:   1
By:   Mervyn Mansell
Comment:   possibly S. fallax, one of the smaller species of brown lacewings and fairly common in Pretoria, where it is attracted to house lights. it has a very wide distribution in the Afrotropics.Very nice picture of a small insect.
Date:   2016-01-06 17:16:53
Species name:   Sympherobius sp.
Species code:   325600

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