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Acanthopteroctetes
Acanthoctesia or "archaic sun moths" is an infraorder of insects in the Lepidopteran order, containing a single superfamily Acanthopteroctetoidea and a single family Acanthopteroctetidae. They are currently considered the fifth group up on the comb of branching events in the extant lepidopteran phylogeny (Kristensen and Skalski, 1999: 10). They also represent the most basal lineage in the lepidopteran group Coelolepida (Wiegmann et al., 2002) (along with Lophocoronoidea and the massive group "Myoglossata") characterised in part by...
5 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Acanthopteroctetes unifascia
speciesAcanthopteroctetes unifascia
Acanthopteroctetes bimaculata
speciesAcanthopteroctetes bimaculata
Acanthopteroctetes aurulenta
speciesAcanthopteroctetes aurulenta
Acanthopteroctetes tripunctata
speciesAcanthopteroctetes tripunctata
African Archaic Sun Moth
speciesAcanthopteroctetes nepticuloides
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 453154.