Lophocoronoidea
Monogeneric superfamily of moths / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lophocoronoidea is a superfamily of insects in the order Lepidoptera. There is a single extant genus, Lophocorona, in the family Lophocoronidae. These are small, primitive nocturnal moths restricted to Australia whose biology is largely unknown (Common, 1990; Kristensen and Nielsen, 1996; Kristensen, 1999).
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Lophocoronoidea | |
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Lophocorona commoni | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Clade: | Coelolepida |
Infraorder: | Lophocoronina Common, 1990 |
Superfamily: | Lophocoronoidea Common, 1973 |
Family: | Lophocoronidae Common, 1973 |
Genus: | Lophocorona Common, 1973 |
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about 6 species |
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A fossil genus Acanthocorona is known from the Burmese amber of Myanmar, dating to the early Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous, approximately 99 million years ago.[1]