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Phosphorus virescens

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ14812931 ↗
Source-derived summary

Phosphorus virescens is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Guillaume-Antoine Olivier in 1795, originally under the genus Cerambix. It has a wide distribution throughout Africa. It is the only species in the genus Phosphorus.

The species is known to damage Cola nitida in cultivation where it is known as the Kola tree borer. Larvae bore through the stems causing death of branches. The yellow coloration on the elytra is fluorescent.

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

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—1795—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Phosphorus, virescens and species.
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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 Sep 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14812931. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1795.

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This entry incorporates text from “Phosphorus virescens” 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.