Southern African Butterfly Conservation Assessment

VIRTUAL MUSEUM COMPETITION NO. 2 - WINNERS

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Dear Butterfly Net
 
SABCA is pleased to announce the winners of its second Virtual Museum competition.
 
Category 1 - Person who submitted the most geographically diverse number of butterfly records (as determined by the number of quarter degree grid squares covered).
 
First prize: One year's membership to the Lepidopterists' Society of Africa
Chris Willis (120 quarter degree grid cells)
 
Second prize: "Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa" signed by author Steve Woodhall
Ralda & Louis Heyns (66 quarter degree grid cells)
 
Third prize: "Butterflies of South Africa" poster
Ian & Alison Sharp (50 quarter degree grid cells)
 
Category 2 - Person who submitted the most species rich number of butterfly records from within one quarter degree grid square.
 
First prize: One year's subscription to Africa Geographic
Ian & Alison Sharp (101 species; grid 2431AD)
 
Second prize: "What's that butterfly?" signed by author Steve Woodhall
Ian & Alison Sharp (93 species; grid 2430DB)
 
Third prize: "Butterfly Lives" poster
Ian & Alison Sharp (89 species; grid 2430BD)
 
Category 3 - Person who submitted the most biologically interesting/unusual butterfly record.
(judged by panel members Steve Woodhall and Andre Coetzer)
 
First prize: "Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa" signed by author Steve Woodhall
Justin & Yolande Bode (record number 10398), for their record of Acraea horta (Garden acraea), showing a great example of partial melanism, an occasional finding in acraeas.
 
Second prize: "What's that butterfly?" signed by author Steve Woodhall
David Maphisa (record number 4407), for his record of Durbania amakosa sagittata (Amakoza rocksitter), which reflects a new colony of a very localised butterfly.
 
Third prize: "Garden Butterflies of South Africa" poster
Ralda & Louis Heyns (record number 7526), for their record of a Hesperiid sucking the body juices of a dead Mylothris agathina agathina (Common dotted border).
 

 
A BIG thank you to the following sponsors for the prizes:
 

(magazine subscription)

(one year's membership to LepSoc)

SABCA sponsored the remaining prizes.
 

 
Congratulations to all the winners! Winners will be contacted shortly for their prizes.
 
Thank you to everyone who submitted photographic records to SABCA's Virtual Museum. Your participation is of great value to the project!
 
And a big thank you to our ID panel of experts from the Lepidopeterists' Society of Africa who spend much of their free time identifying the photos you send in.
 
Silvia Mecenero
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