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Epidichostates strandi

species of beetle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ15860582 ↗
Source-derived summary

Epidichostates strandi is a species of longhorn beetle in the subfamily Lamiinae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1935. It is known from Benin, the Ivory Coast, Gabon, Ghana, Cameroon, Guinea, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Sierra Leone.

Editorial summary

“Epidichostates strandi” enters the record as species of beetle. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Epidichostates, strandi 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 lead gives the account dated anchors—1935—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Epidichostates, strandi and species.
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Why this record matters

“Epidichostates strandi” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Epidichostates, strandi and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Apr 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15860582. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1935.

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This entry incorporates text from “Epidichostates strandi” 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.