Microsphinx pumila (Bedstraw hawklet)

[= Lophuron minutum]

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Microsphinix pumila  [photo J. Joannou ©]

Distribution

South Africa: 'Cape', KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, 'Transvaal' (Pinhey 1975).

Larval host-plants

Recorded in Kroon (1999).

Publications

• Kroon, D.M. 1999. Lepidoptera of Southern Africa - Host-plants and other Associations. A Catalogue. Published by the author and Lepidopterists' Society of Africa, P.O. Box 477, Jukskei Park 2153, South Africa. 

• Pinhey, E.C.G. 1975. Moths of Southern Africa. Tafelberg, Cape Town.