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Amphigonia

genus of insects

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ4748288 ↗
Source-derived summary

Amphigonia is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae erected by Achille Guenée in 1852.

Description

Palpi with second joint reaching above the vertex of the head. Third joint in male curved forwards, with a tuft of hair on the inner side. Antennae of male very long and minutely ciliated. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Tibia hairy. Forewings with arched towards apex, which is produced and acute. Outer margin highly angled at center. Hindwings with produced outer margin to a curved point at vein 4.

Species

Amphigonia hepatizans Guenée, 1852

Amphigonia motisigna Prout, 1928

References

Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Amphigonia” as genus of insects. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1852, 1928—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Amphigonia, genus and insects can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as genus of insects. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4748288. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1852 and 1928.

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This entry incorporates text from “Amphigonia” 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.