Daiopterix
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Family: | †Eolepidopterigidae
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Genus: | †Daiopterix Skalski, 1984
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Daiopterix is an extinct genus of moth within the family Eolepidopterigidae, containing two species. Daiopterix rasnitsyni is known from Kazakhstan. The fossil remains date from the Jurassic.[1]
The second species, Daiopterix olgae, is known from the in central Siberia. It dates from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary, about 145 million years ago.
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Categories:
- Eolepidopterigoidea
- Fossil Lepidoptera
- Jurassic insects
- Jurassic insects of Asia
- Prehistoric insect stubs
- Jurassic animal stubs
- Prehistoric Lepidoptera stubs