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Cymothoe melanjae

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ5199829 ↗
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Cymothoe melanjae is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Mulanje Massif in Malawi.

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

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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 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5199829. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cymothoe melanjae” 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.