Netoxena

Single-species extinct genus of moths

Netoxena Temporal range: Late Aptian ~115–113 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	†Eolepidopterigidae
Genus:	†Netoxena Sohn in Sohn et al., 2012
Species:	†N. nana
Binomial name
†Netoxena nana (Martins-Neto 1999)

Netoxena is an extinct genus of moths within the family Eolepidopterigidae, containing one species, Netoxena nana, which is known from the Crato Formation of the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil.^[1] Its generic name was originally Xena Martins-Neto (1999); however, this name turned out to be preoccupied by a genus of chloropid flies Xena Nartshuk (1964). A replacement generic name Netoxena was coined in 2012.^[2]

References

^ Insects of the Crato Formation
^ Jae-Cheon Sohn; Conrad Labandeira; Donald Davis; Charles Mitter (2012). "An annotated catalog of fossil and subfossil Lepidoptera (Insecta: Holometabola) of the world" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3286: 1–132. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3286.1.1.