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Veromessor andrei

species of ant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 22, 2024
Entity authorityQ52577471 ↗
Source-derived summary

Veromessor andrei is a species of harvester ant native to California, Oregon, Baja California, and possibly Nevada, Arizona, and Colorado.

Editorial summary

“Veromessor andrei” enters the record as species of ant. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Veromessor, andrei and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current 20-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 Veromessor, andrei and species.
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Why this record matters

“Veromessor andrei” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Veromessor, andrei and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Dec 22, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q52577471. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Current terminology should not be projected backward without checking the classification used when the underlying evidence was created. 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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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Veromessor andrei”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Veromessor andrei primary sources, Veromessor andrei archive and Veromessor research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. Has classification or technical consensus changed since the cited source?
  3. Which observation, specimen, dataset or publication supports the account?
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This entry incorporates text from “Veromessor andrei” 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.