Insecta - Lepidoptera - Micropterigidae

Full reference: M. S. Engel and R. K. Kinzelbach. 2008. A primitive moth from the earliest Eocene Fur Formation ("Mo-clay") of Denmark (Lepidoptera: Micropterigidae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 40:1443-1448

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

See also Engel and Kinzelbach 2008

Sister taxa: Archmosaicus, Auliepterix, Baltimartyria, Bitterfeldopterix, Electrocrania, Klausnitzerellus, Micropterix, Palaeosabatinca, Parasabatinca, Sabatinca, Saxomicropterix, Terncladus, Wichardius

Subtaxa: Moleropterix kalbei

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Type: Moleropterix kalbei

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Stolleklint, Fur (KU-NHM collection) (Eocene of Denmark)

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