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Asota paphos

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 30, 2020
Entity authorityQ4807643 ↗
Source-derived summary

Asota paphos is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1787. It is found from the north-eastern Himalayas to Sundaland.

The wingspan is 55–59 mm.

Subspecies

Asota paphos leuconota (Indonesia (Java, Sumatra), Philippines)

Asota paphos paphos (China, India, Indonesia (Borneo, Sumatra), Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore)

References

Zwier, Jaap. "Asota paphos paphos Fabricius 1787". Aganainae (Snouted Tigers). Retrieved August 5, 2019.

Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Asota paphos Fabricius". The Moths of Borneo.

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The public source identifies “Asota paphos” as species of insect. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Asota, paphos 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—1787, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Asota, paphos and species providing the first useful test.
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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 Dec 30, 2020. The linked authority identifier is Q4807643. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1787 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Asota paphos” 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.