Bombycites
Extinct genus of moths / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bombycites oeningensis is an extinct lepidopteran from the Messinian (7-5 million years ago) of Öhningen, Switzerland.[1] It is described in 1849 from a fossil pupa by the Swiss geologist and naturalist Oswald Heer.[2] Because neither the adult nor larval forms are known, either of which contain crucial diagnostic features, its familial and superfamilial placement is uncertain.[3][4]
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Bombycites | |
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Artist's reconstruction | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | incertae sedis |
Genus: | †Bombycites Heer, 1849 |
Species: | †B. oeningensis |
Binomial name | |
†Bombycites oeningensis Heer, 1849 | |
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