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Gratidiini

tribe of insects

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 26, 2024
Entity authorityQ21230443 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Gratidiini are a tribe of stick insects based on the type genus Clonaria (as an old synonym Gratidia Stål, 1875) and first used by Cliquennois in 2005. Genera are known to be distributed in: Africa, Europe, temperate and tropical Asia and various Pacific Islands.

This tribe was previously placed in the Pachymorphinae, but the current consensus (2022) is that it is better placed in the Bacilloidea: either in the family Bacillidae or a proposed new family "Gratidiidae".

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“Gratidiini” enters the record as tribe of insects. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gratidiini, tribe and insects can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1875, 2005, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gratidiini, tribe and insects.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 26, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q21230443. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1875, 2005 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gratidiini” 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.