Eocorona

Eocorona
Temporal range: Carnian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
(unranked): Amphiesmenoptera
Family: †Eocoronidae
Genus: †Eocorona
Tindale, 1981
Species: †E. iani
Binomial name
Eocorona iani
Tindale, 1981

Eocorona is an extinct genus of amphiesmenopteran from the Middle Triassic of Australia. It contains only one species, Eocorona iani, and is the type genus of the family Eocoronidae.[1]

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Discovery

Eocorona iani was first described by the Australian anthropologist and entomologist Norman Tindale in 1980. The fossil was composed of a nearly complete forewing and a hindwing tentatively interpreted as belonging to the same species. It was recovered from Mount Crosby, Queensland, Australia. It dates from the Carnian age (228.0 – 216.5 million years ago) of the Middle Triassic.[2]

Taxonomy

Eocorona iani is the only species in the genus Eocorona and the family Eocoronidae. Tindale.originally described Eocorona iani as a butterfly (order Lepidoptera). This has been challenged by a number of other authors.[3][4]

Most recently, Minet et al. (2010) considered Eocorona a 'true' member of the superorder Amphiesmenoptera, neither lepidopteran (butterflies and moths) nor trichopteran (caddisflies).[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Eocorona Tindale, 1980". Butterflies and Moths of the World Generic Names and their Type-species, Natural History Museum. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/research/projects/butmoth/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=9840.0&AUTHOR=Tindale&beginIndex=3&listPageURL=GenusList2.dsml%3FAUTHOR%3DTindale&searchPageURL=BrowseAuthors.dsml%3FAUTHOR%3DTindale. Retrieved July 14, 2011. 
  2. ^ Norman B. Tindale (1980). "Origin of the Lepidoptera, with Description of a New Mid-Triassic Species and Notes on the Origin of the Butterfly Stem". Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society (The Lepidopterists' Society, Peabody Museum of Natural History) 34 (3): 263–285. http://peabody.research.yale.edu//jls/pdfs/1980s/1980/1980-34(3)263-Tindale.pdf. Retrieved July 14, 2011. 
  3. ^ Niels P. Kristensen (1998). Handbuch der Zoologie: eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches. Walter de Gruyter. p. 16. ISBN 9783110157048. http://books.google.com/books?id=B9rdQ1gHuAAC&lpg=PA16&dq=Eocorona%20iani&pg=PA16#v=onepage&q=Eocorona%20iani&f=false. 
  4. ^ I. F. B. Common (1990). Moths of Australia. BRILL. p. 76. ISBN 9789004092273. http://books.google.com/books?id=magzbmvdRvQC&lpg=PA76&dq=Eocorona%20iani&pg=PA76#v=onepage&q=Eocorona%20iani&f=false. 
  5. ^ Joël Minet, Di-Ying Huang, Hao Wu & André Nel (2010). "Early Mecopterida and the systematic position of the Microptysmatidae (Insecta: Endopterygota)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (Nouvelle série) (Société Entomologique de France) 46 (1—2): 262–270. http://zoologie.umh.ac.be/asef/pdf/2010_46_01_02%5CFull%5CMinet_et_al_2010_ASEF_46_1_2_262_270_full.pdf. Retrieved July 14, 2011.