Cactoblastis cactorum

species of insect
Taxon taxon Q961141
Cactoblastis cactorum
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Cactoblastis cactorum

Summary

Cactoblastis cactorum is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.8% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (66 views/month, #1,565 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Cactoblastis cactorum's image is recorded as Cactoblastis cactorum moth female.jpg[3].
  • Cactoblastis cactorum's instance of is recorded as taxon[4].
  • Cactoblastis cactorum's taxon rank is recorded as species[5].
  • Cactoblastis cactorum's parent taxon is recorded as Cactoblastis[6].
  • Cactoblastis cactorum's taxon name is recorded as Cactoblastis cactorum[7].
  • Cactoblastis cactorum's Commons category is recorded as Cactoblastis cactorum[8].
  • Cactoblastis cactorum's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0h7824[9].
  • Cactoblastis cactorum's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 59379[10].
  • Cactoblastis cactorum's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 361588[11].
  • Cactoblastis cactorum's BioLib taxon ID is recorded as 1101264[12].
  • Cactoblastis cactorum's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 1870532[13].
  • Cactoblastis cactorum's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cactoblastis cactorum[14].
  • Cactoblastis cactorum's Commons gallery is recorded as Cactoblastis cactorum[15].
  • Cactoblastis cactorum's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as animal/cactus-moth[16].
  • Cactoblastis cactorum's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'C. cactorum'}[17].
  • Cactoblastis cactorum's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Tropical Cactus Borer'}[18].
  • Cactoblastis cactorum's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'pl', 'text': 'mklik kaktusowy'}[19].
  • Cactoblastis cactorum's wingspan is recorded as {'unit': 'Q174789', 'amount': '+28.5'}[20].
  • Cactoblastis cactorum's BugGuide taxon ID is recorded as 78959[21].
  • Cactoblastis cactorum's UMLS CUI is recorded as C1021477[22].
  • Cactoblastis cactorum's has host is recorded as Opuntia lindheimeri[23].
  • Cactoblastis cactorum's has host is recorded as Opuntia repens[24].
  • Cactoblastis cactorum's has host is recorded as Opuntia tomentosa[25].
  • Cactoblastis cactorum's has host is recorded as Opuntia triacantha[26].
  • Cactoblastis cactorum's has host is recorded as Opuntia vulgaris[27].

Why It Matters

Cactoblastis cactorum ranks in the top 0.8% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (66 views/month, #1,565 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . BugGuide. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Motyle i ćmy. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Cactus Moth, Cactoblastis cactorum (Berg) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . WikiUMLS: Aligning UMLS to Wikipedia via Cross-lingual Neural Ranking. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . data.nhm.ac.uk. data.nhm.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . data.nhm.ac.uk. data.nhm.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . data.nhm.ac.uk. data.nhm.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . data.nhm.ac.uk. data.nhm.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . data.nhm.ac.uk. data.nhm.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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