Adelopsyche
Appearance
Adelopsyche | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Psychidae |
Genus: | †Adelopsyche Cockerell, 1926 |
Species: | †A. frustans
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Binomial name | |
†Adelopsyche frustans Cockerell, 1926
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Adelopsyche is an extinct genus of moths in the family Psychidae. The single species, Adelopsyche frustans, was found in the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in Colorado, United States. The fossil is dated to the Late Eocene.
References
[edit]- Sohn, J.-C. et al. 2012: An annotated catalog of fossil and subfossil Lepidoptera (Insecta: Holometabola) of the world. Zootaxa, 3286: 1–132.
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Categories:
- Psychidae
- Fossil Lepidoptera
- Eocene insects of North America
- Monotypic moth genera
- Moths of North America
- Priabonian insects
- Paleogene Colorado
- Prehistoric insects of North America
- Psychidae genera
- Fossil taxa described in 1926
- Prehistoric insect genera
- Monotypic prehistoric animal genera
- Tineoidea stubs
- Prehistoric Lepidoptera stubs