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Catephia dentifera

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 30, 2020
Entity authorityQ13457749 ↗
Source-derived summary

Catephia dentifera is a species of moth of the family Erebidae first described by Frederic Moore in 1882. It is found in India, Nepal and Vietnam.

References

External links

Hewitson, William C. & Moore, Frederic (1879). Descriptions of New Indian Lepidopterous Insects: From the Collection of the Late Mr. W.S. Atkinson, M.A., F.L.S., &c. The Asiatic Society of Bengal. OCLC 9625544 – via Internet Archive.

Editorial summary

“Catephia dentifera” enters the record as species of insect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Catephia, dentifera 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—1882, 1879—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Catephia, dentifera and species.
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Why this record matters

“Catephia dentifera” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Catephia, dentifera 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 30, 2020. The linked authority identifier is Q13457749. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1882 and 1879.

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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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This entry incorporates text from “Catephia dentifera” 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.