Palaeolepidopterix

Palaeolepidopterix
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: †Eolepidopterigidae
Genus: †Palaeolepidopterix
Kozlov, 1989
Species:
†P. aurea
Binomial name
†Palaeolepidopterix aurea
Kozlov, 1989

Palaeolepidopterix is an extinct genus of small primitive metallic moths within the extinct family Eolepidopterigidae, containing one species, Palaeolepidopterix aurea. It is known from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian) Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.

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