Eriocranites

Eriocranites
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Elachistidae
Genus: Eriocranites
Kernbach, 1967
Species: E. hercynicus
Binomial name
Eriocranites hercynicus
Kernbach, 1967

Eriocranites is an extinct genus of moth in the Elachistidae family. It contains only one species, Eriocranites hercynicus, which was described from Willershausen in Germany. It is dated to the Pliocene.[1]

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