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Astiptodonta aonides

species of moth

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ27997768 ↗
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Astiptodonta aonides is a species of prominent moth in the family Notodontidae. It was first described by Strecker in 1899 and is found in North America.

The MONA or Hodges number for Astiptodonta aonides is 7971.

This species was formerly a member of the genus Litodonta, but was transferred to a new genus, Astiptodonta, as a result of research published in 2021.

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“Astiptodonta aonides” enters the record as species of moth. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Astiptodonta, aonides 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—1899, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Astiptodonta, aonides and species.
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“Astiptodonta aonides” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Astiptodonta, aonides and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Jul 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27997768. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1899 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Astiptodonta aonides” 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.