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Agyrta dux

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ4694797 ↗
Source-derived summary

Agyrta dux is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1854. It is found on St. Lucia and in Honduras, Guatemala and Venezuela.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1854—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Agyrta, species and insect.
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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 Apr 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4694797. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1854.

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This entry incorporates text from “Agyrta dux” 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.