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Capua aridela

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 30, 2024
Entity authorityQ13453714 ↗
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Capua aridela is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Norfolk Island.

The wingspan is about 21 mm. The forewings are silvery-white with scanty grey irroration (speckling) and sparsely scattered pale-ochreous scales and black markings. The hindwings are whitish-grey, but somewhat darker towards the apex.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Capua aridela” as species of insect. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 57-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Capua, aridela and species can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as species of insect. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Jan 30, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q13453714. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Capua aridela” 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.