Biology
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Specimens have been collected visiting Bowkeria verticillata,
Corycium dracomontanum, Corycium sp., Cyphia triphylla, Cyphia sp.,
Diascia anastrepta, Diascia barberae, Diascia capsularis, Diascia
cardiosepala, Diascia fetcaniensis, Diascia cordata, Diascia
fetcaniensis, Diascia integerrima, Diascia megathura, Diascia purpurea,
Diascia rigescens, Diascia stachyoides, Diascia stricta, Diascia
tugelensis, Diascia vigilis, Dierama tysonii, Disperis renibracteata,
Disperis stenoplectron, Disperis wealei, Geranium amatolicum, Geranium
drakensbergensis, Heliophila rigidiuscula, Hesperantha sp., Lotononis
lotononoides, Lotononis sp., Moraea inclinata, Oxalis semiloba, Selago
tephrodes, Tritonia rubrolucens, Wahlenbergia cuspidata, Wahlenbergia
krebsii, Wahlenbergia zeyheri, Wahlenbergia sp. |
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