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Udara dilecta

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 4, 2023
Entity authorityQ3703374 ↗
Source-derived summary

Udara dilecta, the pale hedge blue or Himalayan pale hedge blue, is a small butterfly found in India, Nepal, China, and Malaya that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. The species was first described by Frederic Moore in 1879.

Taxonomy

If adopting the common practice of many Lepidopterists to use the original gender of the species name, here the formation of the scientific name can instead be Udara dilectus (Moore, 1879).

Cited references

References

Fleming, W. A., 1975 Butterflies of West Malaysia & Singapore ISBN 0-900848-71-5

External links

Takanami, Yusuke & Seki, Yasuo (2001). "Genus Udara". A Synonymic List of Lycaenidae from the Philippines. Archived from the original on June 28, 2001 – via Internet Archive. With images.

Editorial summary

“Udara dilecta” enters the record as species of insect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Udara, dilecta 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 lead gives the account dated anchors—1879, 1975, 2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Udara, dilecta and species.
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Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 4, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q3703374. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1879, 1975 and 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “Udara dilecta” 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.