Kingdom Animalia Family Acanthopteroctetidae Rank Genus | Class Insecta Phylum Arthropoda Order Butterflies and moths | |
Species C. crimaea
C. tianshanica Similar Butterflies and moths, Acanthopteroctetidae, Neopseustidae, Heterobathmioidea, Eriocraniidae |
Catapterix is a genus of moths, formerly considered monotypic, in the Acanthopteroctetidae family. Catapterix crimaea was its sole known species until the formal description of Catapterix tianshanica in 2016.
Its type species, C. crimaea, is found on the Crimea Peninsula in Ukraine. whereas C. tianshanica is described from Kyrgyzstan.
Taxonomy
Some authors place it in the monotypic family Catapterigidae.
References
Catapterix Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA