Lepidoptera in Cretaceous Amber

23 January 1970

journal article
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Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 167 (3917), 379-380
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.167.3917.379

Abstract

The discovery of the head capsule of a lepidopterous larva in Canadian amber of the Cretaceous period is the first fossil evidence of Lepidoptera before the Tertiary period.

Keywords

CRETACEOUS AMBER
LEPIDOPTERA
CRETACEOUS PERIOD
TERTIARY PERIOD
LEPIDOPTEROUS LARVA
HEAD CAPSULE
FOSSIL EVIDENCE
CANADIAN AMBER

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

MICROLEPIDOPTEROUS LARVAE IN BALTIC AMBER
The Canadian Entomologist, 1969
Systematics of Fossil Aphids From Canadian Amber (Homoptera: Aphididae)
The Canadian Entomologist, 1966

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