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Erbessa umbrifera

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ5385160 ↗
Source-derived summary

Erbessa umbrifera is a moth of the family Notodontidae first described by Francis Walker in 1854. It is found in French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Brazil.

References

Miller, James S. (2009). "Generic revision of the Dioptinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae) Part 1: Dioptini". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 321 (2): 1–676. hdl:2246/5978.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Erbessa umbrifera” is species of insect. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Erbessa, umbrifera and species, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1854, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Erbessa, umbrifera and species is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “species of insect” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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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 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5385160. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1854 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Erbessa umbrifera” 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.