Moleropterix

Moleropterix
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Micropterigidae
Genus:	†Moleropterix Engel & Kinzelbach, 2008
Species:	†M. kalbei
Binomial name
Moleropterix kalbei Engel & Kinzelbach, 2008

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]

References

1. ^ A primitive moth from the earliest Eocene Fur Formation

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