Micropterix anglica is an extinct species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae which was described by Edmund A Jarzembowski in 1980.[1]
| Micropterix anglica | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Micropterigidae |
| Genus: | Micropterix |
| Species: | †M. anglica
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| Binomial name | |
| †Micropterix anglica Jarzembowski, 1980
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Only a single known specimen, from the Oligocene, has been found on the Isle of Wight. It consists of greater part of a forewing. Its original length estimated at 4 millimetres (0.16 in). The veins are mostly dark brown with intervening membrane light brown.[2]
References
edit- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Micropterix anglica". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 21, 2018.
- ^ Micropterix anglica at Leptree
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