CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
EN/FR
Search
Menu
Research dossier · Science & Nature

Athyma fortuna

species of insect

Specimen drawers, botanical folios and brass scientific instruments under study light
Science and natureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 19, 2024
Entity authorityQ22286661 ↗
Source-derived summary

Athyma fortuna is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the East Palearctic.

Subspecies

A. f. diffusa Leech (Central China)

A. f. kodahirai (Sonan, 1938) (China：Taiwan)

A. f.

Editorial summary

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

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—1938—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Athyma, fortuna and species.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Athyma fortuna” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Athyma, fortuna and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 19, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q22286661. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1938.

Critical limits

Current terminology should not be projected backward without checking the classification used when the underlying evidence was created. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Check terminology, classification and the date of the cited evidence. Scientific names and technical consensus can change while older records retain historical value.

Best used for
  • Current terminology
  • Classification context
  • Finding cited technical literature
Verify next

Primary datasets, specimen catalogues, standards bodies and the most recent peer-reviewed literature.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Athyma fortuna”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Athyma fortuna primary sources, Athyma fortuna archive and Athyma research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Athyma fortuna”?
  2. Has classification or technical consensus changed since the cited source?
  3. Which observation, specimen, dataset or publication supports the account?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Athyma fortuna” 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.