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LepiMAP:   25769
Province:   Limpopo
Country:   South Africa
Locus:   2430BD
Observer:   Roerig J.
Date of record:   2012-10-13
Number of photos:   2
Notes:   More white than L. patricia or am I on the wrong track?
Last updated:   2020-12-03 13:24:46
Sp. code:   466520
Species name:   Lepidochrysops glauca
Common name:   Silvery giant cupid -- Ysblou ratsbloutjie
Family:   LYCAENIDAE
Record status:   ACCEPTED
Collector's species id:   Lepidochrysops glauca glauca
Institution:   ADU-UCT
Record URL:   https://vmus.adu.org.za/?vm=LepiMAP-25769
Links:   • Locus: Summary | Records       • Species: Records | Distribution map
VM-number: 25769 - photo: 1
VM-number: 25769 - photo: 2

Comments by the Expert Panel on this record:

Comment number:   1
By:   Steve Woodhall
Comment:  
Date:   2012-10-14 07:56:51
Species name:   Lepidochrysops glauca -- Silvery giant cupid; Ysblou ratsbloutjie
Species code:   466520
Comment number:   2
By:   Steve Woodhall
Comment:   The only way to tell is the upper side colour - mauve-blue in patricia, silvery blue in glauca glauca, pale sky blue in glauca swinburnei, grey shot with green-blue in rossouwi.
Date:   2012-10-14 07:59:00
Species name:  
Species code:   0
Comment number:   3
By:   Andre Coetzer
Comment:  
Date:   2012-10-22 10:36:04
Species name:   Lepidochrysops glauca -- Silvery giant cupid; Ysblou ratsbloutjie
Species code:   466520

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