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Crambus satrapellus

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ13499998 ↗
Source-derived summary

Crambus satrapellus is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Zincken in 1821. It is found from the United States (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, South Carolina and Texas) to Brazil.

Adults are on wing from July to September in most of North America, but year-round in Florida.

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The public source identifies “Crambus satrapellus” as species of insect. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Crambus, satrapellus and species.

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—1821—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Crambus, satrapellus and species providing the first useful test.
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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 Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q13499998. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1821.

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This entry incorporates text from “Crambus satrapellus” 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.