Insecta - Lepidoptera - Oecophoridae

Full reference: A. W. Skalski. 1973. Studies on the Lepidoptera from fossil resins. Part II. Epiborkausenites obscurotrimaculatus gen. et sp. nov. (Oecophoridae) and a tineid-moth discovered in the Baltic amber. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 18:153-160

Parent taxon: Oecophorinae according to J. C. Sohn et al. 2012

See also Carpenter 1992 and Skalski 1973

Sister taxa: Borkhausenites, Glesseumeyrickia, Neoborkhausenites, Oecophorinites, Paraborkhausenites, Schiffermuelleria

Subtaxa: Epiborkhausenites obscurotrimaculatus

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Type: Epiborkhausenites obscurotrimaculatus

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, Tyskiewicz's amber mine, Palanga, Samland Peninsula (Eocene of Lithuania)

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