Parasabatinca

Parasabatinca
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
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Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Micropterigidae
Genus: †
Whalley 1978
Species
  • †P. aftimacrai Whalley 1978
  • †P. caldasae Martins Neto & Vulcano 1989

Parasabatinca is an extinct genus of small primitive metallic moths within the extant family Micropterigidae or extinct family Eolepidopterigidae, containing two species. The first is Parasabatinca aftimacrai, of which fossil remains have been found in Lebanese amber and have been dated to the Lower Cretaceous.[1]

References

  1. ^ nkis.info


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