Lophocoronoidea Temporal range:
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Lophocorona commoni | |
Scientific classification | |
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 |
Species | |
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Diversity | |
about 6 species |
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).
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]