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Letis xylia

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ13397820 ↗
Source-derived summary

Letis xylia is a species of moth in the family Erebidae first described by Achille Guenée in 1852. It is found in North America.

The MONA or Hodges number for Letis xylia is 8646.1.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Letis xylia” is species of insect. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Letis, xylia and species, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1852—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Letis, xylia and species is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “species of insect” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Mar 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q13397820. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1852.

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Current terminology should not be projected backward without checking the classification used when the underlying evidence was created. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Letis xylia primary sources, Letis xylia archive and Letis research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Letis xylia” 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.