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Acleros nigrapex

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ4674322 ↗
Source-derived summary

Acleros nigrapex, the powdered dusky skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and north-western Tanzania. The habitat consists of forests.

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The public source identifies “Acleros nigrapex” as species of insect. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Acleros, nigrapex 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 42-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 Acleros, nigrapex and species providing the first useful test.
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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4674322. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Acleros nigrapex” 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.