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<mods:title>First records of 31 species of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) in Cameroon, with remarks on their elevational ranges</mods:title>
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This species was known only from Uganda and Central African Republic. Our Cameroonian record thus broadened its distribution range westwards to the Guinean biogeographic region. On Mount Cameroon, it was collected in lowland forests at 350 and 650 m a.s.l. (Fig. 
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