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Baeotis melanis

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ2661617 ↗
Source-derived summary

Baeotis melanis is a species of butterfly in the family Riodinidae. It was described by Jacob Hübner in 1831. It is found in Brazil.

Description

The upperside is dark black with two to four yellow stripes. The underside is similar but has larger peach-coloured stripes.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Baeotis melanis” is species of insect. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Baeotis, melanis and species, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1831—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Baeotis, melanis and species is the immediate research focus.
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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 May 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2661617. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1831.

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This entry incorporates text from “Baeotis melanis” 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.