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Dichromia legrosi

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 23, 2023
Entity authorityQ13363621 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dichromia legrosi is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Christian Guillermet in 1992. It is found on Réunion.

A host plant of this species is in the family Urticaceae and genus Boehmeria.

References

"Dichromia legrosi (Guillermet, 1992)". African Moths. Retrieved February 11, 2020.

Editorial summary

“Dichromia legrosi” enters the record as species of insect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dichromia, legrosi 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—1992, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dichromia, legrosi and species.
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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 Dec 23, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q13363621. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1992 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dichromia legrosi” 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.