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...

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

Mitter, Charles (30 April 2012). "An annotated catalog of fossil and subfossil Lepidoptera (Insecta: Holometabola) of the world". Zootaxa. 3286 (1): 59...

Martinetto, Edoardo; Vieira, Manuel (October 2020). "New Pliocene records of plant fossil-taxa from NW Portugal and their relevance for the assessment 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Botany: The World's Most Fascinating Flora. HarperCollins. Assessing the Fossil Record of Asterids in the Context of Our Current Phylogenetic Framework by...

June–September 2023 Canadian wildfires caused carbon emissions that exceeded annual fossil fuel emissions of all nations except India, China and the US. 20 November:...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

superfamily Xyeloidea. The fossil record of the family is extensive, comprising more than 120 species and including the oldest fossil Hymenoptera species dating...

species are extinct fossils, due to the paucity of their fossil record, only 1/100 of known insects are extinct fossils. Insect fossils are often three dimensional...

claimed records, there are no widely accepted Jurassic fossil records of flowering plants, which make up 90% of living plant species, and fossil evidence...

Arctostaphylos species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Coleophora arctostaphyli (which feeds exclusively on...

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...

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

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

and summer butter season while the grass was growing. The earliest Lepidoptera fossils date to the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, around 200 million years...