Netoxena is an extinct genus of moths within the family Eolepidopterigidae, containing one species, Netoxena nana, which is known from the Crato Formation of the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil.[1] Its generic name was originally Xena Martins-Neto (1999); however, this name turned out to be preoccupied by a genus of chloropid flies Xena Nartshuk (1964). A replacement generic name Netoxena was coined in 2012.[2]
| Netoxena Temporal range: Late Aptian
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| Genus: | †Netoxena Sohn in Sohn et al., 2012
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| Species: | †N. nana
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| †Netoxena nana (Martins-Neto 1999)
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References
edit- ^ Insects of the Crato Formation
- ^ Jae-Cheon Sohn; Conrad Labandeira; Donald Davis; Charles Mitter (2012). "An annotated catalog of fossil and subfossil Lepidoptera (Insecta: Holometabola) of the world" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3286: 1–132. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3286.1.1.
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