Daiopterix

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Daiopterix
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Eolepidopterigidae
Genus: Daiopterix
Skalski, 1984
Species
  • Daiopterix rasnitsyniSkalski, 1984
  • Daiopterix olgaeKozlov, 1989

Daiopterix is an extinct genus of moths in the family Eolepidopterigidae.

The genus contains two species. Daiopterix rasnitsyni is known from Kazakhstan. The fossil remains date from the Jurassic. [1] 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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