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Mnasicles

genus of insects

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ10794283 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mnasicles is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

Mnasicles geta Godman, 1901

Mnasicles hicetaon Godman, 1901

Former species

Mnasicles thymoetes Hayward, 1941, transferred to Mnasalcas.

Editorial summary

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

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 lead gives the account dated anchors—1901, 1941—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Mnasicles, genus and insects is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “genus of insects” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

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 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10794283. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1901 and 1941.

Critical limits

Current terminology should not be projected backward without checking the classification used when the underlying evidence was created. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mnasicles” 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.