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Actebia squalida

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ4676762 ↗
Source-derived summary

Actebia squalida is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It known from Finland, the southern Urals, and eastern Siberia.

It was previously thought to also occur in North America but this error comes from a misidentification of Actebia balanitis.

The larvae probably feed on various grasses.

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“Actebia squalida” enters the record as species of insect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Actebia, squalida and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4676762. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Actebia squalida” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.