Palaeoelachista

Palaeoelachista
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Elachistidae
Genus: Palaeoelachista
Kozlov, 1987
Species: P. traugottolseni
Binomial name
Palaeoelachista traugottolseni
Kozlov, 1987

Palaeoelachista is an extinct genus of moths in the Elachistidae family. It was described by Kozlov in 1987.[1] It contains the species P. traugottolseni, which was described from Baltic amber in the Russian Federation. It is dated to the Eocene.[2]

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