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Daiopterix

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Eolepidopterigidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Rank
  
Genus

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Daiopterix is an extinct genus of moth within the family Eolepidopterigidae, containing two species. Daiopterix rasnitsyni is known from Kazakhstan. The fossil remains date from the Jurassic.

The second species, Daiopterix olgae, is known from the Glushkova Formation in central Siberia. It dates from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary, about 145 million years ago.

References

Daiopterix Wikipedia