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Caristanius decoloralis

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ5039703 ↗
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Caristanius decoloralis is a moth of the family Pyralidae described by Francis Walker in 1863. It is native to North America, where it has been recorded from North Carolina, Florida and eastern Texas. It is an introduced species in Hawaii.

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“Caristanius decoloralis” enters the record as species of insect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Caristanius, decoloralis 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 lead gives the account dated anchors—1863—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Caristanius, decoloralis and species.
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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 Apr 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5039703. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1863.

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This entry incorporates text from “Caristanius decoloralis” 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.