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Colobothea roppai

species of beetle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 14, 2024
Entity authorityQ14836734 ↗
Source-derived summary

Colobothea roppai is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Monné in 1993. It is known from Brazil.

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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—1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Colobothea, roppai and species is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Colobothea roppai” 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.