Electrocrania

Electrocrania is an extinct genus of micropterigid moth. It is known from two species found in Eocene aged Baltic amber. The genus was originally described by Nikolai Yakovlevich Kuznetsov in 1941.[1] The genus was subsequently synonymised with Micropterix, until a second species was described in 2015, which restored it as a distinct genus.[2]

Electrocrania
Temporal range: Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Micropterigidae
Genus:
†Electrocrania

Kuznetsov, 1941
Species
  • †Electrocrania immensipalpa, Kuznetsov 1941
  • †Electrocrania michalskii, Kurz 2015

References
  1. Kuznetsov, N. J. (1941). Cheshuekrylye Yantarya.: 1–136.
  2. Kurz, Michael (19 November 2015). "On the systematic position of Electrocrania Kusnezov, 1941 with the description of a new species from Baltic amber (Lepidoptera: Micropterigidae)". Zootaxa. 4044 (3): 446–50. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4044.3.7. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 26624720.


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