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Curetis insularis

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 16, 2021
Entity authorityQ13487541 ↗
Source-derived summary

Curetis insularis is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family. It is found in the Indomalayan realm (Java, Peninsular Malaya, Borneo, Sumatra, Thailand). Curetis insularis was described by Horsfield in 1829.

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External links

"Curetis Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 6, 2017.

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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 Feb 16, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q13487541. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1829, 1819 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Curetis insularis” 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.