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Milionia meeki

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionNov 1, 2024
Entity authorityQ13550613 ↗
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Milionia meeki is a species of moth in the family Geometridae first described by Karl Jordan and Walter Rothschild in 1895. It is found on Fergusson Island in Papua New Guinea.

Adults differ from Milionia rawakensis, especially in the band of the forewings standing further towards the outer margin, in the marginal black spots to the hindwings being confluent with one another, and in the yellow area of the hindwings entering the discoidal cell. The marginal fringe of the hindwings is all black.

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

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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 Nov 1, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q13550613. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1895.

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This entry incorporates text from “Milionia meeki” 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.