Name:
Epiborkhausenites.
Phonetic: Ep-e-bork-how-sen-e-teez.
Named By: A. W. Skalski - 1973.
Classification: Arthopoda, Insecta,
Lepidoptera, Oecophoridae.
Species: E. obscurotrimaculatus
(type).
Diet: Detritivore?
Size: Forewings 4.3 millimetres long.
Known locations: Lithuania.
Time period: Bartonian of the Eocene.
Fossil representation: Almost complete female moth
preserved in amber.
Epiborkhausenites is a genus of moth that lived in Europe during the Eocene.
Further reading
- Studies on the Lepidoptera from fossil resins. Part II.
Epiborkausenites obscurotrimaculatus gen. et sp. nov.
(Oecophoridae) and a tineid-moth discovered in the Baltic amber.
- Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 18:153-160. - A. W.
Skalski - 1973.