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Cleonymia

genus of insects

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ5131709 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cleonymia is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.

Species

Cleonymia affinis (Rothschild, 1920)

Cleonymia baetica (Rambur, 1837)

Cleonymia chabordis (Oberthür, 1876)

Cleonymia diffluens (Staudinger, 1870)

Cleonymia fatima (A. Bang-Haas, 1907)

Cleonymia jubata (Oberthür, 1890)

Cleonymia korbi (Staudinger, 1895)

Cleonymia marocana (Staudinger, 1901)

Cleonymia opposita (Lederer, 1870)

Cleonymia pectinicornis (Staudinger, 1859)

Cleonymia vaulogeri (Staudinger, 1899)

Cleonymia versicolor (Rothschild, 1920)

Cleonymia warionis (Oberthür, 1876)

Cleonymia yvanii (Duponchel, 1833)

References

Cleonymia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Cleonymia Berio 1966". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Cleonymia” as genus of insects. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1920, 1837, 1876, 1870—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Cleonymia, genus and insects can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as genus of insects. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5131709. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1920, 1837, 1876 and 1870.

Critical limits

Scientific names, classifications and consensus can change while older terminology persists in catalogues and historical literature. 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 “Cleonymia” 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.