Hexerites
Single-species extinct genus of moths
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Hexerites primalis is an extinct moth in the family Depressariidae, and the only species in the genus Hexerites. It was described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell in 1933.[1] It was described from the Green River Eocene formation in Colorado.[2]
| Hexerites | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Depressariidae |
| Subfamily: | Stenomatinae |
| Genus: | †Hexerites Cockerell, 1933 |
| Species: | †H. primalis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Hexerites primalis Cockerell, 1933 | |