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Clivina sobrina

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ13470567 ↗
Source-derived summary

Clivina sobrina is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Scaritinae. It was described by Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean in 1831.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. 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, Clivina, sobrina 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 Mar 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q13470567. 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 “Clivina sobrina” 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.