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Euchaetes

genus of insects

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 25, 2023
Entity authorityQ5405798 ↗
Source-derived summary

Euchaetes is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. It was described by Thaddeus William Harris in 1841.

Species

References

Arctiidae genus list at Butterflies and Moths of the World of the Natural History Museum

Savela, Markku. "Euchaetes Harris, 1841". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 16, 2017.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Euchaetes” is genus of insects. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Euchaetes, genus and insects, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1841, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Euchaetes, genus and insects is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Euchaetes” 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.