The Lepidoptera fossil record encompasses all butterflies and moths that lived before recorded history. The fossil record for Lepidoptera is lacking in...

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...

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...

fruit is a dry capsule containing numerous small winged seeds. Several fossil seeds and fruit fragments of †Weigela srodoniowae have been described from...

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...

species of moth. Other Lepidoptera species whose larvae sometimes feed on Hypericum include the common emerald, the engrailed (recorded on imperforate St....

70 species of flowering plants in the family Pentaphylacaceae. Several fossil seeds of Eurya stigmosa have been described from Middle Miocene strata of...

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...

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:...

most likely derived from terrestrial scorpion ancestors. The oldest fossil record of hexapod is obscure, as most of the candidates are poorly preserved...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Yunnan Province in China †Ostrya oregoniana (fossil) †Ostrya scholzii (fossil) †Ostrya scholzii fossil seeds of the Chattian stage, Oligocene, are known...

by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including the moths Coleophora auricella, C. lineolea, and C. wockeella, all recorded on S. officinalis. They...

plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including Paysandisia archon and the Batrachedra species B. amydraula (recorded on P. dactylifera), B. arenosella...

Various extinct species of Liriodendron have been described from the fossil record. Liriodendron trees are easily recognized by their leaves, which are...

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...

PMC 6868187. PMID 31748672. Skalski, A. W. (1973). "Studies on the Lepidoptera from Fossil Resins. Part II. Epiborkhausenites obscurotrimaculatus gen. et...

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...

birds. Aralia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including the common emerald (Hemithea aestivaria). There are...

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...

hemp family (Cannabaceae). Members of the genus are present in the fossil record as early as the Miocene of Europe, and Paleocene of North America and...

plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including common pug (recorded on harebell), dot moth, ingrailed clay (recorded on harebell), lime-speck...

taxonomy for two sister orders: Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) and Trichoptera (caddisflies). In 2017, a third fossil order was added to the group,...

Chungkun; Bashkuev, Alexei; Zhao, Yunyun; Ren, Dong (2014). "The earliest fossil record of Panorpidae (Mecoptera) from the Middle Jurassic of China". ZooKeys...

lotus. Ziziphus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Bucculatrix zizyphella, which feeds exclusively on...

researchers have recognized Parthenocissus fossil pollen. The sediment containing the Parthenocissus fossil pollen had accumulated in a lowland wetland...

seed is a small nutlet. Cyperus species are eaten by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including Chedra microstigma. They also provide an alternative...