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Uresiphita insulicola

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 22, 2022
Entity authorityQ14511245 ↗
Source-derived summary

Uresiphita insulicola is a moth in the family Crambidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and Queensland.

The wingspan is about 40 mm. The forewings are dark brown and the hindwings are orange with broad black tips.

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“Uresiphita insulicola” enters the record as species of insect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Uresiphita, insulicola and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 47-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Uresiphita, insulicola and species.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 22, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q14511245. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Uresiphita insulicola” 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.