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Prominea porrecta

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ7249744 ↗
Source-derived summary

Prominea porrecta is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Max Saalmüller in 1880. It is found on the African Indian Ocean islands of Madagascar, Réunion and Mauritius.

It has a wing length of about 16–17 mm and a wingspan around 33 mm.

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External links

"Prominea porrecta (Saalmüller, 1880) -Cirrhochrista etiennei"[link removed]. Image on right from Flicker. Archived from the originalDeprecated link archived 2013-01-23 at archive.today January 23, 2013.

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“Prominea porrecta” enters the record as species of insect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Prominea, porrecta 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—1880, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Prominea, porrecta 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 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7249744. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1880 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Prominea porrecta” 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.