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Endoclita punctimargo

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ5376278 ↗
Source-derived summary

Endoclita punctimargo is a species of moth of the family Hepialidae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1892. It is known from the Indian state of Sikkim.

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External links

"Endoclita Felder, 1874". Buffalo Museum of Science. Archived May 12, 2006.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Endoclita punctimargo” as species of insect. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1892, 1874, 2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Endoclita, punctimargo and species can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as species of insect. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5376278. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1892, 1874 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Endoclita punctimargo” 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.