Lophocoronoidea


Lophocoronoidea is a superfamily of insects in the order Lepidoptera. There is a single extant genus, Lophocorona, in the family Lophocoronidae. These are small, primitive nocturnal moths restricted to Australia whose biology is largely unknown.
A fossil genus Acanthocorona is known from the Burmese amber of Myanmar, dating to the early Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous, approximately 99 million years ago.

Fossil species

Acanthocorona Mey, Léger & Lien, 2021
  • * A. skalskii
  • * A. muelleri
  • * A. bowangi
  • * A. wichardi
  • * A. kuranishii
  • * A. sattleri
  • * ''A. spinifera''