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Pyrausta (moth)

genus of insects

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 20, 2021
Entity authorityQ149486 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pyrausta is a speciose genus of moths of the family Crambidae. The genus was erected by Franz von Paula Schrank in 1802.

Species

The genus includes the following species:

A

B-C

D-F

G-K

L-N

O-P

Q-S

T-Z

Former species

The following species were formerly included in this genus:

Status unclear

Pyrausta argyralis (O.-G. Costa, 1836), described as Botys argyralis from Italy.

Pyrausta venalalis (Hulst, 1886), described as Botys venalalis from New York.

References

Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Crambidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.

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The public source identifies “Pyrausta (moth)” as genus of insects. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Pyrausta, moth and genus.

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—1802, 1836, 1886—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Pyrausta, moth and genus providing the first useful test.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 20, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q149486. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1802, 1836 and 1886.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pyrausta (moth)” 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.