Sphingidites

	Sphingidites ''Sphingidites'' is an extinct and monotypic moth genus in the family Sphingidae. Its only species is ''Sphingidites weidneri''. It is a compression fossil of a prepupal larva. Both the genus and species were first described by Kurt Kernbach in 1967. The fossil was found at Willershausen clay pit in Germany and it was dated to the Pliocene. References † Fossil Lepidoptera Fossil taxa described in 1967 Pliocene insects Fossils of Germany † A dagger, obelisk, or obelus is a typographical mark that usually indicates a footnote if an asterisk has already been used. The symbol is also used to indicate death (of people) or extinction (of species). It is one of the modern descendan ... Prehistoric insect genera Monotypic prehistoric animal genera Sphingidae genera {{paleo-Lepidoptera-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Fossil Lepidoptera Prehistoric Lepidoptera are both butterflies and moths that lived before recorded history. The fossil record for Lepidoptera is lacking in comparison to other winged species, and tending not to be as common as some other insects in the habitats that are most conducive to fossilization, such as lakes and ponds, and their juvenile stage has only the head capsule as a hard part that might be preserved. Yet there are fossils, some preserved in amber and some in very fine sediments. Leaf mines are also seen in fossil leaves, although the interpretation of them is tricky. Putative fossil stem group representatives of Amphiesmenoptera (the clade comprising Trichoptera and Lepidoptera) are known from the Triassic. Previously, the earliest known lepidopteran fossils were three wings of '' Archaeolepis mane'', a primitive moth-like species from the Jurassic, about , found in Dorset, UK, which show scales with parallel grooves under a scanning electron microscope and a characteristic wing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sphingini Sphingini is a tribe of moths of the family Sphingidae. The tribe was described by Pierre André Latreille in 1802. Taxonomy Genus '' Amphimoea'' Genus '' Amphonyx'' Genus '' Apocalypsis'' Genus ''Ceratomia'' Genus '' Cocytius'' Genus '' Dolba'' Genus '' Dolbogene'' Genus '' Dovania'' Genus '' Ellenbeckia'' Genus '' Euryglottis'' Genus '' Hoplistopus'' Genus '' Ihlegramma'' Genus '' Isoparce'' Genus ''Lapara'' Genus '' Leucomonia'' Genus ''Lintneria'' Genus '' Litosphingia'' Genus '' Lomocyma'' Genus '' Macropoliana'' Genus ''Manduca'' Genus '' Meganoton'' Genus '' Morcocytius'' Genus '' Nannoparce'' Genus '' Neococytius'' Genus ''Neogene'' Genus '' Oligographa'' Genus '' Panogena'' Genus '' Pantophaea'' Genus '' Paratrea'' Genus '' Poliana'' Genus '' Praedora'' Genus '' Pseudococytius'' Genus '' Pseudodolbina'' Genus '' Psilogramma'' Genus '' Sagenosoma'' Genus †'' Sphingidites'' Genus ''Sphinx'' Genus '' Thamnoecha'' Genus '' Xanthopan' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point. Because a species' potential range may be very large, determining this moment is difficult, and is usually done retrospectively. This difficulty leads to phenomena such as Lazarus taxa, where a species presumed extinct abruptly "reappears" (typically in the fossil record) after a period of apparent absence. More than 99% of all species that ever lived on Earth, amounting to over five billion species, are estimated to have died out. It is estimated that there are currently around 8.7 million species of eukaryote globally, and possibly many times more if microorganisms, like bacteria, are included. Notable extinct animal species include non-avian dinosaurs, saber-toothed cats, dodos, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]