Auliepterix
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| Auliepterix | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Micropterigidae |
| Genus: | †Auliepterix Kozlov, 1989 |
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Auliepterix is an extinct genus of small primitive metallic moths within the family Micropterigidae. The genus is represented by two species, the type species A. mirabilis in the Karabastau Svita of the Upper Jurassic of Kazakhstan (near Aulye) and Auliepterix minima in Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous rocks near Khotont Somon in the Mongolian People's Republic.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Kozlov, M. V. (1989). "New Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous Lepidoptera (Papilionida)". Paleontological Journal. 23 (4): 34–39.
- ↑ Sohn, JC; Labandeira, CC; Davis, DR; Mitter, C (2012). "An annotated catalog of fossil and subfossil Lepidoptera (Insecta: Holometabola) of the world" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3286: 1–132. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3286.1.1.
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