Bombycites

Bombycites oeningensis is an extinct lepidopteran from the Messinian (7-5 million years ago) of Öhningen, Switzerland.^[1] It is described in 1849 from a fossil pupa by the Swiss geologist and naturalist Oswald Heer.^[2] Because neither the adult nor larval forms are known, either of which contain crucial diagnostic features, its familial and superfamilial placement is uncertain.^[3][4]

Bombycites Temporal range: Upper Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Artist's reconstruction
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	incertae sedis
Genus:	†Bombycites Heer, 1849
Species:	†B. oeningensis
Binomial name
†Bombycites oeningensis Heer, 1849

See also

• Prehistoric Lepidoptera