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Exelastis pilum

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ5419973 ↗
Source-derived summary

Exelastis pilum is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

References

Gielis, Cees, 2009: On a collection of Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera) from Haut-Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Revue suisse de Zoologie 116 (2): 223-256.

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

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—2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Exelastis, pilum and species.
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“Exelastis pilum” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Exelastis, pilum and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5419973. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Exelastis pilum” 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.