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Drepanogynis insciata

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ13574299 ↗
Source-derived summary

Drepanogynis insciata is a species of geometrid moth in the family Geometridae. It is endemic to the Western Cape in South Africa.

History

Drepanogynis insciata was thought to be extinct for 147 years since 1879, where the species was known only from two specimens. Between 2020 and 2023, 13 specimens were recorded on iNaturalist.

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

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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 Aug 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q13574299. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1879, 2020 and 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “Drepanogynis insciata” 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.