Parasabatinca

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Zeugloptera
Superfamilia: Micropterigoidea

Familia: Micropterigidae
Genus: Parasabatinca
Species: P. aftimacrai – P. caldasae
Name

Parasabatinca Whalley, 1978

Type species: Parasabatinca aftimacrai Whalley, 1978

Holotype: TMP
References
Primary references

Whalley, P.E.S. 1978. New taxa of fossil and Recent Micropterigidae with a discussion of their evolution and a comment on the evolution of Lepidoptera (Insecta). Annals of the Transvaal Museum 31(8): 1-86. Reference page.

Parasabatinca is an extinct genus of small primitive metallic moths within the extant family Micropterigidae or extinct family Eolepidopterigidae, containing two species. The first is Parasabatinca aftimacrai, of which fossil remains have been found in Lebanese amber and have been dated to the Lower Cretaceous.
Description

These fossil moths have similarly shaped wings and wing scales, with abundant microtrichia on the wing membrane, comparable with recent Micropterigidae species such as Sabatinca and Micropteryx, but differences from them by the lack of ocelli and the apparent absence of a branch of the subcostal vein. The species is close to Sabatinca with which it has more characters in common than with Micropterix.

Parasabatinca caldasae is known from two specimens from the Crato Formation in Brazil. The age of the fossil has been estimated to be between 125 and 112 Ma, since it was discovered in Crato fossil beds (Lower Cretaceous, Aptian).[1]
References

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