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Loewia foeda

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ6666616 ↗
Source-derived summary

Loewia foeda is a European and North America species of fly in the family Tachinidae. It was first found in North America in 1972. The species is a parasitoid of centipedes.

Distribution

Canada, United States, British Isles, Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Russia.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Loewia foeda” as species of insect. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1972—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Loewia, foeda and species can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as species of insect. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6666616. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1972.

Critical limits

Scientific names, classifications and consensus can change while older terminology persists in catalogues and historical literature. 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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  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 “Loewia foeda” 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.