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Erbessa lindigii

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ5385131 ↗
Source-derived summary

Erbessa lindigii is a moth of the family Notodontidae first described by Cajetan and Rudolf Felder in 1874. It is found in Colombia and Panama.

The larvae feed on Miconia impetiolaris, Henriettea and Conostegia species.

References

Miller, James S. (2009). "Generic revision of the Dioptinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae) Part 1: Dioptini". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 321 (2): 1–676. hdl:2246/5978.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Erbessa lindigii” as species of insect. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1874, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Erbessa, lindigii and species can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as species of insect. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Feb 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5385131. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1874 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Erbessa lindigii” 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.