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LepiMAP:   4040
Province:   Limpopo
Country:   South Africa
Locus:   2430DB
Observer:   Webb P.
Date of record:   2008-11-17
Number of photos:   1
Notes:   A warm day, rained that morning.
Last updated:   0000-00-00 00:00:00
Sp. code:   541300
Species name:   Zerenopsis lepida
Common name:   Leopard magpie moth
Family:   GEOMETRIDAE
Record status:   ACCEPTED
Collector's species id:  
Institution:   ADU-UCT
Record URL:   https://vmus.adu.org.za/?vm=LepiMAP-4040
Links:   • Locus: Summary | Records       • Species: Records | Distribution map
VM-number: 4040 - photo: 1

Comments by the Expert Panel on this record:

Comment number:   1
By:   Hermann Staude
Comment:   Zerenopsis lepida, Diptychinae, Geometridae. It is interesting that this cycad feeding insect has extended its range to an area where no natural cycads occur.
Date:   2009-05-14 15:53:51
Species name:  
Species code:   0
Comment number:   2
By:   Fanie Rautenbach
Comment:  
Date:   2014-07-18 08:59:42
Species name:   Zerenopsis lepida -- Leopard magpie moth
Species code:   541300

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