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Schinia verna

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 19, 2023
Entity authorityQ7431469 ↗
Source-derived summary

Schinia verna, or the Verna's flower moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

The wingspan is approximately 20 mm.

The larvae feed on Antennaria species.

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“Schinia verna” enters the record as species of insect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Schinia, verna 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 34-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 Schinia, verna and species.
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“Schinia verna” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Schinia, verna and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Jun 19, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q7431469. The Library of Congress control number is sh2009001606. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Schinia verna” 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.