Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Micropterigidae Scientific name Micropterix immensipalpa | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Micropterix Rank Species | |
Micropterix immensipalpa is an extinct species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by Kuznezov in 1941. It is only known from the single type specimen in Baltic amber.
The species has been described as an eriocraniid moth under the new genus name Electrocrania. Kozlov interpreted the incomplete venation in the sense of a micropterigid moth and has consequently transferred the species to genus Micropterix, although no traceable apomorphy in that specimen is known that would allow a certain assignment even to the Micropterigidae.
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