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LepiMAP:   647775
Province:   KwaZulu-Natal
Country:   South Africa
Locus:   2931CC
Observer:   Dillon Lana Ann
Date of record:   2018-04-27
Number of photos:   3
Notes:   I'm assuming this butterfly had just left its chrysalis, I was worried I had interrupted the process of it's enlarging wings while watering my plants, but when I returned a short while later to check on its progress, it was gone.
Last updated:   2021-03-10 15:25:06
Sp. code:   652330
Species name:   Chiromachla leuconoe
Common name:  
Family:   EREBIDAE
Record status:   ACCEPTED
Collector's species id:   Dusky Acraea (Acraea Esebria)
Institution:   ADU-UCT
Record URL:   https://vmus.adu.org.za/?vm=LepiMAP-647775
Links:   • Locus: Summary | Records       • Species: Records | Distribution map
VM-number: 647775 - photo: 1
VM-number: 647775 - photo: 2
VM-number: 647775 - photo: 3

Comments by the Expert Panel on this record:

Comment number:   1
By:   Fanie Rautenbach
Comment:   It is a moth actually. You can see it by the antennae that does not end in a club (thickened) shape. But it does look a lot like the dusky acraea.
Date:   2018-05-08 17:49:04
Species name:  
Species code:   0
Comment number:   2
By:   Quartus Grobler
Comment:  
Date:   2018-05-08 20:29:04
Species name:   Nyctemera leuconoe
Species code:   516170
Comment number:   3
By:   Craig Peter
Comment:   ID Updated: Nyctemera leuconoe [516170] is a synonym of Chiromachla leuconoe [652330]
Date:   2021-03-10 15:25:53
Species name:   Chiromachla leuconoe
Species code:   652330

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