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Udea lugubralis

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 3, 2022
Entity authorityQ20721038 ↗
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Udea lugubralis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by John Henry Leech in 1889. It is found in Japan and on the Kurile Islands, as well as in China.

The wingspan is about 27 mm. Adults are brown, with a slight cupreous tint. The forewings have a dark basal line and a darkly outlined stigmata, beyond them is a sharply serrated dark line, which curves abruptly towards the centre of the wing, then descends to the inner margin. The hindwings have a dark central line and discal spot.

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“Udea lugubralis” enters the record as species of insect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Udea, lugubralis 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—1889—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Udea, lugubralis 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 Nov 3, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q20721038. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1889.

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This entry incorporates text from “Udea lugubralis” 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.