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Demetrida aiyura

species of beetle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ59571258 ↗
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Demetrida aiyura is a species of ground beetle in the Lebiinae subfamily. It was described by Darlington in 1991 and is endemic to New Guinea.

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The public source identifies “Demetrida aiyura” as species of beetle. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Demetrida, aiyura 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—1991—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Demetrida, aiyura and species providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Demetrida aiyura” 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.