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Macronoctua

genus of insects

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ8011131 ↗
Source-derived summary

Macronoctua is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.

Species

Macronoctua onusta Grote, 1874 (also known as the Iris borer moth)

Former species

Macronoctua dolens Druce, 1909, now Dypterygia dolens.

Editorial summary

“Macronoctua” enters the record as genus of insects. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Macronoctua, genus and insects 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—1874, 1909—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Macronoctua, genus and insects.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

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 Mar 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8011131. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1874 and 1909.

Critical limits

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 Macronoctua primary sources, Macronoctua archive and Macronoctua 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.

Questions for further research

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Macronoctua” 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.