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Bradina admixtalis

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ2923473 ↗
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Bradina admixtalis is a species of moth of the family Crambidae described by Francis Walker in 1859. It is found in Australia (Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland), New Guinea, New Zealand, south-east Asia and the Comoros, Réunion, South Africa as well as India.

The larvae feed on grasses.

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

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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 Aug 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2923473. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1859.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bradina admixtalis” 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.