Parasabatinca
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Parasabatinca is an extinct genus
of small primitive metallic moths within the extant family
Micropterigidae
or extinct family Eolepidopterigidae, containing two species. The first is Parasabatinca aftimacrai, of which fossil remains have been found in Lebanese amber and have been dated to the Lower Cretaceous.
These fossil moths have similarly shaped wings and wing scales, with abundant microtrichia on the wing membrane, comparable with recent Micropterigidae
species such as Sabatinca
and Micropteryx, but differences from them by the lack of ocelli and the apparent absence of a branch of the subcostal vein. The species is close to Sabatinca with which it has more characters in common than with Micropterix.
Parasabatinca caldasae is known from two specimens from the Santana formation in Brazil. The age of the fossil has been estimated to be between 125-112 Ma, since it was discovered in Crato fossil beds (Lower Cretaceous, Aptian).
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of small primitive metallic moths within the extant family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Micropterigidae
Micropterigidae
Micropterigoidea is the superfamily of "mandibulate archaic moths", all placed in the single family Micropterigidae, containing currently about 20 living genera. They are considered the most primitive extant lineage of Lepidoptera ....
or extinct family Eolepidopterigidae, containing two species. The first is Parasabatinca aftimacrai, of which fossil remains have been found in Lebanese amber and have been dated to the Lower Cretaceous.
These fossil moths have similarly shaped wings and wing scales, with abundant microtrichia on the wing membrane, comparable with recent Micropterigidae
Micropterigidae
Micropterigoidea is the superfamily of "mandibulate archaic moths", all placed in the single family Micropterigidae, containing currently about 20 living genera. They are considered the most primitive extant lineage of Lepidoptera ....
species such as Sabatinca
Sabatinca
Sabatinca is a genus of small primitive metallic moths in the insect order Lepidoptera within the family Micropterigidae. Palaeomicra and Micropardalis were both established as subgenera of Sabatinca, but were both raised to generic level by Minet in 1985.-Selected Species:*Sabatinca aemula...
and Micropteryx, but differences from them by the lack of ocelli and the apparent absence of a branch of the subcostal vein. The species is close to Sabatinca with which it has more characters in common than with Micropterix.
Parasabatinca caldasae is known from two specimens from the Santana formation in Brazil. The age of the fossil has been estimated to be between 125-112 Ma, since it was discovered in Crato fossil beds (Lower Cretaceous, Aptian).