Micropterix Anglica

Micropterix anglica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Micropterigidae
Genus:	Micropterix
Species:	†M. anglica
Binomial name
	Micropterix anglica; Jarzembowski, 1980

Micropterix anglica is an extinct species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae which was described by Edmund A Jarzembowski in 1980.^[1]

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

^ 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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[1] 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.

[2] Micropterix anglica at Leptree

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