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Micropentila cingulum

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 17, 2023
Entity authorityQ6839823 ↗
Source-derived summary

Micropentila cingulum is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1910. It is found in Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo and Gabon. The habitat consists of primary forests.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Micropentila cingulum” as species of insect. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Micropentila, cingulum and species.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1910—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Micropentila, cingulum and species providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Micropentila cingulum”, the useful work is to connect “species of insect” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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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 Oct 17, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q6839823. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1910.

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This entry incorporates text from “Micropentila cingulum” 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.