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Stenoporpia excelsaria

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 6, 2021
Entity authorityQ13559583 ↗
Source-derived summary

Stenoporpia excelsaria is a species of geometrid moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in North America.

The MONA or Hodges number for Stenoporpia excelsaria is 6474.

Editorial summary

“Stenoporpia excelsaria” enters the record as species of insect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Stenoporpia, excelsaria 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 28-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 Stenoporpia, excelsaria and species.
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“Stenoporpia excelsaria” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Stenoporpia, excelsaria and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Jan 6, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q13559583. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Stenoporpia excelsaria” 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.