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Epicopeia hainesii

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 29, 2024
Entity authorityQ5382598 ↗
Source-derived summary

Epicopeia hainesii is a moth of the family Epicopeiidae, first described by William Jacob Holland in 1889. It is found in the Korean Peninsula, Japan and Taiwan.

The wingspan is 55–60 mm.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Epicopeia hainesii” as species of insect. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Epicopeia, hainesii 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—1889—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Epicopeia, hainesii and species providing the first useful test.
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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 Jul 29, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5382598. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1889.

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This entry incorporates text from “Epicopeia hainesii” 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.