| Coelolepida Temporal range: | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Suborder: | Glossata |
| Clade: | Coelolepida Nielsen & Kristensen, 1996 [2] |
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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]
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]