Title: <strong>On the systematic position of <em>Electrocrania</em> Kusnezov, 1941 with the description of a new species from Baltic amber (Lepidoptera: Micropterigidae)</strong>
Abstract: A new fossil species of Electrocrania Kusnezov is described, i.e. Electrocrania michalskii sp. nov. The male moth in Baltic amber is in a sufficiently good condition to allow its assignment to the family Micropterigidae on the basis of four re-cognized autapomorphies of this family (Kristensen 1998). The unique venation of the specimen places it in the genus Electrocrania stat. rev. and allows a redescription of that genus that has recently been treated as synonym of Micropterix Hübner. It is argued that Electrocrania is a distinct genus within Micropterigidae that is not associated with Micropterix, but probably can be assigned to the "Northern Hemisphere genera"-lineage of Micropterigidae.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-11-18
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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