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Alucita crococyma

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ4737160 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alucita crococyma is a species of moth of the family Alucitidae. It is known from South Africa.

Editorial summary

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

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 17-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 value is orientation rather than verdict, with Alucita, crococyma and species providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Alucita crococyma”, the useful work is to connect “species of insect” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4737160. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alucita crococyma” 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.