Coelolepida

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Coelolepida
Temporal range: Mid Early Cretaceous – present [1]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Suborder: Glossata
Clade: Coelolepida
Nielsen & Kristensen, 1996 [2]
Subdivisions

Coelolepida is a clade of insects in the lepidopteran order, containing the infraorders Acanthoctesia, Lophocoronina, Neopseustina, Exoporia and Heteroneura, with the latter three grouped in clade Myoglossata. [3] [4]

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Coelolepida comprise all non-eriocraniid Glossata. [5] They have scales on their wings and on the first thoracic spiracle. [5] They do not have ocelli. [5]

Fossils of Coelolepida have been found in the mid Early Cretaceous Series. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 van Eldijk, Timo J. B.; Wappler, Torsten; Strother, Paul K.; van der Weijst, Carolien M. H.; Rajaei, Hossein; Visscher, Henk; van de Schootbrugge, Bas (10 January 2018). "A Triassic-Jurassic window into the evolution of Lepidoptera". Science Advances. 4 (1) e1701568. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1701568. ISSN   2375-2548. PMC   5770165 . PMID   29349295.
  2. ↑ Coelolepida in the Paleobiology Database
  3. ↑ Zhang, Zhi-Qiang (2011). Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Auckland, N.Z.: Magnolia Press. p. 212. ISBN   978-1-86977-849-1. OCLC   772474689.
  4. ↑ van Nieukerken, E.J.; Kaila, L.; et al. (2011). Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.). "Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758" (PDF). Zootaxa . Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. 3148 (1): 212–221. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.41 . OCLC   8028487127. S2CID   109145350 . Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 April 2022.
  5. 1 2 3 Kristensen, Niels P. (1998-12-31), "5. The Homoneurous Glossata", Band 4: Arthropoda, 2 Hälfte: Insecta, Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies, Teilband/Part 35, Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography, DE GRUYTER, pp. 51–64, doi:10.1515/9783110804744.51, ISBN   978-3-11-015704-8
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