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Prothoe australis

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2024
Entity authorityQ13580015 ↗
Source-derived summary

Prothoe australis is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville in 1831. It is found in the Australasian realm.Seitz provides a description.

Subspecies

P. a. australis (Waigeu, Misool)

P. a. mulderi (Vollenhoven, 1863) (Batchian, Halmahera)

P. a. westwoodi Wallace, 1869 (Aru)

P. a. hewitsoni Wallace, 1869 (Irian Jaya)

P. a. layardi Godman & Salvin, 1882 (New Ireland)

P. a. schulzi Ribbe, 1898 (New Britain)

P. a.

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

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—1831, 1863, 1869, 1882—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Prothoe, australis 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 Aug 21, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q13580015. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1831, 1863, 1869 and 1882.

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This entry incorporates text from “Prothoe australis” 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.