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Hypocrita escuintla

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 25, 2024
Entity authorityQ13313790 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hypocrita escuintla is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by William Schaus in 1920. It is found in Guatemala.

References

External links

Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.

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“Hypocrita escuintla” enters the record as species of insect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hypocrita, escuintla 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—1920—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hypocrita, escuintla and species.
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“Hypocrita escuintla” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hypocrita, escuintla and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 Jan 25, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q13313790. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1920.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hypocrita escuintla” 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.