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Catapterix

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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