The Lepidoptera fossil record encompasses all butterflies and moths that lived before recorded history. The fossil record for Lepidoptera is lacking in...
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remained largely unchanged over the past 250 million years. The fossil record for Lepidoptera is lacking in comparison to other winged species and tends not...
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pollen of the flowers of many herbaceous plants, shrubs and trees. The fossil record of the group goes back to the middle-late Jurassic with the earliest...
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Weigela (section Fossil record)
fruit is a dry capsule containing numerous small winged seeds. Several fossil seeds and fruit fragments of †Weigela srodoniowae have been described from...
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Hypericum (section Fossil record)
species of moth. Other Lepidoptera species whose larvae sometimes feed on Hypericum include the common emerald, the engrailed (recorded on imperforate St....
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Lythrum (section Fossil record)
lythrum)". plants.usda.gov. Retrieved 31 January 2018. Graham, Shirley A. “Fossil Records in the Lythraceae.” Botanical Review, vol. 79, no. 1, 2013, pp. 48–145...
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Rumex (section Fossil record)
Poland. This fossil fruit is similar to the fruits of the extant species Rumex maritimus and Rumex ucranicus which both have fossil records from the Pliocene...
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Eurya (section Fossil record)
70 species of flowering plants in the family Pentaphylacaceae. Several fossil seeds of Eurya stigmosa have been described from Middle Miocene strata of...
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Endopterygota. Wang, Y.-h. et al. Fossil record of stem groups employed in evaluating the chronogram of insects (Arthropoda:...
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Arthropod (section Fossil record)
most likely derived from terrestrial scorpion ancestors. The oldest fossil record of hexapod is obscure, as most of the candidates are poorly preserved...
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Ranunculus (section Fossil record)
type occurs. Ranunculus species are used as food by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the Hebrew character and small angle shades. Some species...
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Prodryas (category Fossil Lepidoptera)
Florissant Shale Lagerstätte of Late Eocene Colorado. P. persephone is the first fossil butterfly to be found in North America, and is exquisitely well preserved...
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Ostrya (section Fossil record)
Yunnan Province in China †Ostrya oregoniana (fossil) †Ostrya scholzii (fossil) †Ostrya scholzii fossil seeds of the Chattian stage, Oligocene, are known...
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Dalbergia (section Fossil record)
Asia. A fossil †Dalbergia phleboptera seed pod has been found in a Chattian deposit, in the municipality of Aix-en-Provence in France. Fossils of †Dalbergia...
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This list of 2024 in paleoentomology records new fossil insect taxa that are to be described during the year, as well as documents significant paleoentomology...
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Stachys (section Fossil record)
by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including the moths Coleophora auricella, C. lineolea, and C. wockeella, all recorded on S. officinalis. They...
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Phoenix (plant) (section Fossil record)
plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including Paysandisia archon and the Batrachedra species B. amydraula (recorded on P. dactylifera), B. arenosella...
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Liriodendron (section Fossils)
Various extinct species of Liriodendron have been described from the fossil record. Liriodendron trees are easily recognized by their leaves, which are...
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Australia Ailanthus vietnamensis H.V.Sam & Noot. – Vietnam There is a good fossil record of Ailanthus with many species names based on their geographic occurrence...
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Lithospermum (section Fossil record)
are eaten by the caterpillars of certain Lepidoptera, such as the moth Ethmia pusiella which has been recorded on L. officinale. The dried root of Lithospermum...
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Evolution of insects (redirect from Insect fossils and evolution)
species are extinct fossils, due to the paucity of their fossil record, only 1/100th of known insects are extinct fossils. Insect fossils are often three...
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Aralia (section Fossil record)
birds. Aralia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including the common emerald (Hemithea aestivaria). There are...
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PMC 6868187. PMID 31748672. Skalski, A. W. (1973). "Studies on the Lepidoptera from Fossil Resins. Part II. Epiborkhausenites obscurotrimaculatus gen. et...
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Campanula (section Fossil record)
plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including common pug (recorded on harebell), dot moth, ingrailed clay (recorded on harebell), lime-speck...
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Ziziphus (section Fossil species)
lotus. Ziziphus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Bucculatrix zizyphella, which feeds exclusively on...
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Mecoptera (section Fossil history)
Chungkun; Bashkuev, Alexei; Zhao, Yunyun; Ren, Dong (2014). "The earliest fossil record of Panorpidae (Mecoptera) from the Middle Jurassic of China". ZooKeys...
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taxonomy for two sister orders: Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) and Trichoptera (caddisflies). In 2017, a third fossil order was added to the group,...
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Parthenocissus (section Fossil record)
researchers have recognized Parthenocissus fossil pollen. The sediment containing the Parthenocissus fossil pollen had accumulated in a lowland wetland...
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Cyperus (section Fossil record)
seed is a small nutlet. Cyperus species are eaten by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including Chedra microstigma. They also provide an alternative...
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claimed records, there are no widely accepted Jurassic fossil records of flowering plants, which make up 90% of living plant species, and fossil evidence...
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