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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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Szabolcs 
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="50543">Distribution</paragraph>
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The nominotypical subspecies is relatively common in the Guinean biogeographic zone (most countries along the seashore between Mauritania and Nigeria) and from the Southern African region and Madagascar. Our Cameroonian record thus extended its distribution to the easternmost edge of the Guinean biogeographic zone. In the Mount Cameroon region, it was recorded from coastal (30 m a.s.l.) and submontane forests (1,450 m a.s.l.) (Fig. 
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