Eupera ferruginea ( Krauss, 1848 )

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2. Eupera ferruginea ( Krauss, 1848)

Distribution and year: Okavango Delta panhandle at Shakawe [SMWN76994] 1996 ( Appleton & Curtis 2007); Upper panhandle, Okavango Delta 2000 ( Appleton et al. 2003).

Geographic range: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo,Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Habitat: Freshwater.

Notes: The species is widespread across Southern Africa ( Appleton & Curtis 2007). Eupera parasitica and E. ferruginea are now considered synonyms ( MolluscaBase 2023). Here, all specimen records for E. parasitica are classified as E. ferruginea .

Type locality: Knysna River , South Africa ( Krauss 1848) .

Sources: Appleton et al. (2003: 58–68, also recorded E. parasitica which is now considered a synonym of E. ferruginea ); Appleton & Curtis (2007: 60); Appleton & Miranda (2015: 136); GBIF (2023 b).

Conservation status: Least Concern.