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Lestes vidua

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ2165949 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lestes vidua, the Carolina spreadwing, is a species of spreadwing in the damselfly family Lestidae. It is found in North America.

The IUCN conservation status of Lestes vidua is "LC", least concern, with no immediate threat to the species' survival. The population is stable. The IUCN status was reviewed in 2017.

Editorial summary

“Lestes vidua” enters the record as species of insect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lestes, vidua 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—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lestes, vidua and species.
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Why this record matters

“Lestes vidua” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lestes, vidua and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2165949. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lestes vidua” 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.