Catapterix
Sign in to saveCatapterix is a small genus of moths in the family Acanthopteroctetidae, with species occurring in Europe and Central Asia. The genus was previously considered monotypic, with Catapterix crimaea as its sole known species, until the formal description of Catapterix tianshanica in 2016.
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Vinony's link graph records 3 inbound references to Catapterix, and connects out to Ukraine, Animalia and Kyrgyzstan.
Vinony files it under Acanthoctesia, Glossata genera and Taxa named by Aleksei Konstantinovich Zagulyaev.
Vinony links it to 4 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyAcanthopteroctetidae
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Acanthopteroctetidae
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- taxon name
- Catapterix
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxonomic type
- Catapterix crimaea
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Catapterix is a small genus of moths in the family Acanthopteroctetidae, with species occurring in Europe and Central Asia. The genus was previously considered monotypic, with Catapterix crimaea as its sole known species, until the formal description of Catapterix tianshanica in 2016.
==Distribution== The type species, C. crimaea, is known from the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine and from southern France, whereas C. tianshanica is described from Kyrgyzstan.
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