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Psilocerea psegma

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 29, 2024
Entity authorityQ13554910 ↗
Source-derived summary

Psilocerea psegma is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It is found on the Comoros.

Related pages

List of moths of the Comoros

References

De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. 2015. Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication (www.afromoths.net) (13.Mar.2015)

Herbulot, C. 1981a. Mission P. Viette à la grande Comore. Lepidoptera Geometridae.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Psilocerea psegma” is species of insect. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Psilocerea, psegma and species, 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—2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Psilocerea, psegma and species is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Psilocerea psegma” 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.