Sphingidites | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Sphingidae |
Subfamily: | Sphinginae |
Tribe: | Sphingini |
Genus: | †Sphingidites Kernbach, 1967[1] |
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Sphingidites is an extinct genus of moths in the Sphingidae family, containg one species, Sphingidites weidneri. It is a compression fossil of a prepupal larva. The fossil was found in Germany and was dated to the Pliocene.