Undopterix
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| Family: | †Eolepidopterigidae (disputed)
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| Genus: | †Undopterix Skalski, 1979
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Undopterix is an extinct genus of moths within the family Eolepidopterigidae, containing two species. Undopterix sukatshevae is known from Russia. The fossil remains are dated to the Lower Cretaceous.[1]
The second species, Undopterix cariensis is known from the Crato Formation in Brazil.
Taxonomy[]
Undopterix was initially classified in the Micropterigidae, but was later transferred to the Eolepidopterigidae family. It was designated as the type-genus for the new family Undopterigidae by Kozlov in 1988, but this is disputed.
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Categories:
- Eolepidopterigoidea
- Fossil Lepidoptera
- Cretaceous insects
- Early Cretaceous animals of South America
- Cretaceous Brazil
- Fossils of Brazil
- Crato Formation
- Fossil taxa described in 1979
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