Thirteen moth species (lepidoptera, erebidae, noctuidae) newly recorded in south africa, with comments on their distribution

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• who: Afrotropics and collaborators from the specimens were anaesthetised by ammonium hydrogen carbonate inside the trapsIn the collected moth material, we focused on twelve moth families: Erebidae, Eutellidae, Noctuidae, Nolidae, Notodontidae, Eupterotidae, Lasiocampidae, Saturniidae, Sphingidae, Geometridae, Thyrididae and Limacodidae. We identified all specimens of the focal families, based mostly on external morphology and/or genitalia dissections, using various available literature and online resources and the exhaustive Lepidoptera collection in the Nature Education Centre, Jagiellonian University, Kraku00f3w, Poland. The identification of all species reported here as the new country records were always confirmed by genitalia dissection, the reference . . .
  

   

  

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