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Lethe maitrya

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 6, 2024
Entity authorityQ13397281 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lethe maitrya, the barred woodbrown, is a species of Satyrinae butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm.

Subspecies

L. m. maitrya West Himalayas, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan

L. m. thawgawa Tytler, 1939 Burma

L. m. metokana Huang, 1998 Tibet

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Editorial summary

“Lethe maitrya” enters the record as species of insect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lethe, maitrya 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—1939, 1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lethe, maitrya and species.
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Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 6, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q13397281. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1939 and 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lethe maitrya” 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.