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Bocula samarinda

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ4936333 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bocula samarinda is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Jeremy Daniel Holloway in 2005. It is found in Borneo.

The wingspan is about 20 mm.

Editorial summary

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

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—2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Bocula, samarinda and species is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “species of insect” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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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 Jun 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4936333. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bocula samarinda” 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.