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Polyura posidonius

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 9, 2023
Entity authorityQ3395870 ↗
Source-derived summary

Polyura posidonius is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Leech in 1891. It is found in Tibet and western China.

Editorial summary

“Polyura posidonius” enters the record as species of insect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Polyura, posidonius 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—1891—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Polyura, posidonius and species.
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Why this record matters

“Polyura posidonius” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Polyura, posidonius and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 9, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q3395870. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1891.

Critical limits

Current terminology should not be projected backward without checking the classification used when the underlying evidence was created. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Polyura posidonius primary sources, Polyura posidonius archive and Polyura research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. Which observation, specimen, dataset or publication supports the account?
  3. Has classification or technical consensus changed since the cited source?
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This entry incorporates text from “Polyura posidonius” 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.