Micropterix immensipalpa

Micropterix immensipalpa
Micropterix immensipalpa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Micropterigidae
Genus: Micropterix
Species: †M. immensipalpa
Binomial name
†Micropterix immensipalpa
(Kuznezov, 1941)
Synonyms
  • Electrocrania immensipalpa Kuznezov, 1941

Micropterix immensipalpa is an extinct species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by Kuznezov in 1941. It is only known from the single type specimen in Baltic amber.[1]

The species has been described as an Eriocraniid moth under the new genus name Electrocrania. Kozlov interpreted the incomplete venation in the sense of a Micropterigid moth and has consequently transferred the species to genus Micropterix, although no traceable apomorphy in that specimen is kwown that would allow a certain assignment even to the Micropterigidae.

References

  1. ^ nkis.info
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