Gracilepteryx
| Gracilepteryx Temporal range: Late Aptian ~ | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | †Eolepidopterigidae |
| Genus: | †Gracilepteryx Martins-Neto & Vulcano 1989 |
| Species: | †G. pulchra |
| Binomial name | |
| †Gracilepteryx pulchra Martins-Neto & Vulcano 1989 | |
Gracilepteryx is an extinct genus of moths within the family Eolepidopterigidae, containing one species, Gracilepteryx pulchra, which is known from the Late Aptian Crato Formation of the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil.[1]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Insects of the Crato Formation" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-12-14.
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