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Hypolycaena auricostalis

species of butterfly

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ21854930 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hypolycaena auricostalis is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Zambia and Malawi.

Subspecies

Hypolycaena auricostalis auricostalis (Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Lualaba and Shaba)

Hypolycaena auricostalis frommi Strand, 1911 (Tanzania)

References

Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 68 b

Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 68 c ssp.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Hypolycaena auricostalis” as species of butterfly. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hypolycaena, auricostalis and species.

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—1911—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hypolycaena, auricostalis and species providing the first useful test.
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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 Jul 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21854930. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1911.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hypolycaena auricostalis” 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.