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Dorytomus luridus

species of beetle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ49424747 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dorytomus luridus is a species of true weevil in the beetle family Curculionidae. It is found in North America.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current 19-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dorytomus, luridus and species.
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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 May 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q49424747. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dorytomus luridus” 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.