2002/09/01 by A. C. Harris, J. Ian Raine · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy #Plant Diversity and Evolution #Plant and animal studies #Lepidoptera genitalia #Cretaceous #Biology #Subfamily #Genus #Insect #Zoology #Anatomy #Paleontology
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/03014223.2002.9517704
openalex publication_date 2002/09/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/23
Abstract A second Cretaceous insect fossil known from New Zealand—the apical part of a sclerite from the abdomen of an adult lepidopterous insect—from Rakaia Gorge, Canterbury, is described. The fragment is interpreted as the broken off, apical part of the sacculus free arm of one of the paired valvae of the male genitalia of a species of Lepidoptera. Its affinities possibly lie with the subfamily Larentiinae of the family Geometridae and possibly with the genus Helastia Guenée.