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Lithophane grotei

species of moth

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ15743129 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lithophane grotei, commonly known as Grote's pinion or Grote's sallow, is a species of moth in the family Noctuidae. It was first described by Riley in 1882 and it is found in North America.

The MONA or Hodges number for Lithophane grotei is 9915.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Lithophane grotei” is species of moth. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Lithophane, grotei 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—1882—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Lithophane, grotei and species is the immediate research focus.
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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q15743129. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1882.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lithophane grotei” 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.