Pterosthetops impressus Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3811.4.2 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6129837 |
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Pterosthetops impressus Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994 |
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Pterosthetops impressus Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994 View in CoL
A relatively widespread species of the mountains of the western part of the Western Cape, which can be quite abundant. New records are from wet rock faces below springs and beside streams.
Additional records: September 2002 Western Cape, Mitchell’s Pass nr. Ceres, seepages over rock— 1 ♂; September 2002 Western Cape, Bainskloof Pass above Wellington, seepages over rock beside RXX road on north side of pass— 1 ♂, 2 ♀; 18/ix/2008 Western Cape, Table Mountain National Park, seepage over rock beside M64 road above Silvermine— 3 ♂; 26/ix/2008 Western Cape, Du Toitskloof Pass, wet rock face— 1 ♂; 27/ix/2008 Western Cape, Western Cape, Table Mountain National Park, Table Mountain, seepage over rock beside stream in Valley of the Red Gods— 1 ♂; 25/ix/2009 Western Cape, Franschhoek Pass, wet rock face beside R45 road ( Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 B)—1 ♀; 25/ix/2009 Western Cape, Mont Rochelle above Franschhoek, seepage over sloping rock face beside stream @ 1,100 m— 4 ♂, 2 ♀; 24/ix/2010 Western Cape, Table Mountain National Park, Table Mountain, seepage over rock in Echo Valley ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 D)— 1 ♂, 3♀; 23/ix/2011 Western Cape, Cederberg, seepages over exposed rock @ 1,200 m, below Wolfberg Arch, beside Matjiesrivier-Wupperthal road ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 A)— 1 ♂, 1 ♀; 24/ix/2011 Western Cape, Cederberg, wet rock face below spring beside Algeria Waterfall— 1 ♂; 3/x/2013 Western Cape, Cederberg, wet rock face in permanent spring below Wolfberg Cracks—abundant. Distribution Fig. 9 View FIGURE 9 .
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