Oegoconiites

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Oegoconiites
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Autostichidae
Subfamily: Symmocinae
Genus: Oegoconiites
Kusnetsov, 1941
Species:
borisjaki
Binomial name
borisjaki
Kusnetsov, 1941

Oegoconiites is an extinct moth genus in the family Autostichidae. It contains the species Oegoconiites borisjaki, [1] which was described from a full-body adult specimen in Baltic amber. [2] [3] It has been dated to the Lutetian. [3]

References

  1. funet.fi
  2. Fossilworks
  3. 1 2 Sohn, Jae-Cheon; Labandeira, Conrad; Davis, Donald; Mitter, Charles (30 April 2012). "An annotated catalog of fossil and subfossil Lepidoptera (Insecta: Holometabola) of the world". Zootaxa. 3286 (1): 46. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3286.1.1 . Retrieved 7 December 2024.