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Patania aedilis

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 10, 2023
Entity authorityQ19321719 ↗
Source-derived summary

Patania aedilis is a species of moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1887. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.

The wingspan is about 20 millimetres (0.79 in). The hindwings have a white margin.

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

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—1887—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Patania, aedilis and species.
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“Patania aedilis” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Patania, aedilis and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 10, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q19321719. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1887.

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This entry incorporates text from “Patania aedilis” 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.