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Pterostichus caudicalis

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2023
Entity authorityQ14207116 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pterostichus caudicalis is a species of woodland ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in North America.

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“Pterostichus caudicalis” enters the record as species of insect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pterostichus, caudicalis 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 19-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 strongest next move is a source search built around Pterostichus, caudicalis 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 Aug 3, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q14207116. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pterostichus caudicalis” 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.