Parasabatinca
Appearance
Parasabatinca Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Micropterigidae |
Genus: | †Parasabatinca Whalley 1978 |
Species | |
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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
[edit]External links
[edit]- Data related to Parasabatinca at Wikispecies
Categories:
- Micropterigidae
- Moth genera
- Fossil Lepidoptera
- Cretaceous insects
- Prehistoric insects of Asia
- Fossils of Lebanon
- Early Cretaceous animals of South America
- Cretaceous Brazil
- Fossils of Brazil
- Crato Formation
- Fossil taxa described in 1978
- Prehistoric insect genera
- Micropterigidae stubs
- Prehistoric Lepidoptera stubs
- Cretaceous insect stubs