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Zatania

genus of insects

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ16977881 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zatania is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus is known from Central America and the Greater Antilles.

The generic name is derived from Greek za, "very", tany, "long", referencing its elongated body features.

Editorial summary

“Zatania” enters the record as genus of insects. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Zatania, genus and insects 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 37-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 Zatania, genus and insects.
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Why this record matters

“Zatania” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Zatania, genus and insects 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 Aug 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16977881. 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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This entry incorporates text from “Zatania” 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.