Oligamatites
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Extinct genus of moths
| Oligamatites | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | †Oligamatites Kusnetzov, 1928 |
| Species: | †O. martynovi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Oligamatites martynovi Kusnetzov, 1928
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Oligamatites is an extinct genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae. It contains the single species Oligamatites martynovi dated to the Upper Oligocene, which was described from Kazakhstan. Both the genus and species were described by Nikolai Yakovlevich Kuznetsov in 1928.[1]
References
[edit ]- ^ Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Oligamatites Kusnetzov, 1928". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London . Retrieved October 31, 2019.
External links
[edit ]- Media related to Oligamatites at Wikimedia Commons
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