Daiopterix
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| Daiopterix | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Eolepidopterigidae |
| Genus: | †Daiopterix Skalski, 1984 |
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Daiopterix is an extinct genus of moth within the family Eolepidopterigidae, containing two species. Daiopterix rasnitsyni is known from Kazakhstan. The fossil remains date from the Jurassic.[1]
The second species, Daiopterix olgae, is known from the Glushkova Formation in central Siberia. It dates from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary, about 145 million years ago.
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