Moleropterix
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Moleropterix | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Micropterigidae |
Genus: | †Moleropterix Engel & Kinzelbach, 2008 |
Species: | †M. kalbei
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Binomial name | |
†Moleropterix kalbei Engel & Kinzelbach, 2008
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Moleropterix is an extinct genus of small primitive metallic moths within the family Micropterigidae, containing one species, Moleropterix kalbei. It is described from a well-preserved forewing of the Fur Formation of the earliest Eocene (Early Ypresian) of Denmark.[1]
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- Micropterigidae
- Fossil Lepidoptera
- Eocene insects
- Fossils of Denmark
- Monotypic moth genera
- Fur Formation
- Fossil taxa described in 2008
- Prehistoric insect genera
- Monotypic prehistoric animal genera
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