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Jamides cleodus

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMay 15, 2021
Entity authorityQ6146505 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jamides cleodus, the white cerulean, is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. The species was first described by Cajetan Felder in 1865.

See also

List of butterflies of India

List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)

References

Evans, W. H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.

Gaonkar, Harish (1996). Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a Threatened Mountain System. Bangalore, India: Centre for Ecological Sciences.

Gay, Thomas; Kehimkar, Isaac David; Punetha, Jagdish Chandra (1992). Common Butterflies of India.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jamides cleodus” as species of insect. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1865, 1932, 1996, 1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Jamides, cleodus and species can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as species of insect. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 15, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q6146505. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1865, 1932, 1996 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jamides cleodus” 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.