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Antinephele efulani

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ2609431 ↗
Source-derived summary

Antinephele efulani is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It was described by Benjamin Preston Clark in 1926 and is known from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon and Cameroon.

The costal margin of the forewing upperside is apically shaded with green. There is a mid-brown semi-lunar patch on the outer margin bordered basally by a series of four irregularly sagittate (arrowhead-shaped) bluish-white markings.

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

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1926—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Antinephele, efulani and species.
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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 Dec 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2609431. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1926.

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This entry incorporates text from “Antinephele efulani” 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.