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EPIBORKHAUSENITES
(ep-e-bork-how-sen-e-teez)
Named By: A. W. Skalski in 1973
Time Period: 37.7-Middle Eocene Ma
Location: Lithuania
Size: Forewings 4.3 millimetres long
Diet: Detritivore
Fossil(s): Almost complete female moth preserved in amber
Classification: | Arthopoda | Insecta | Lepidoptera | Oecophoridae |
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Epiborkhausenites is an extinct genus of moth in the concealer moth family Oecophoridae and containing a single species Epiborkhausenites obscurotrimaculatus. The species is known only from Middle Eocene, Bartonian stage, Baltic amber deposits near the town of Palanga in Lithuania.

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