image: Example of a living representative of a primitive moth belonging to the Micropterigidae. Scales from this group of primitive moths were found in the Schandelah-1 core, constituting the oldest evidence for the Lepidoptera. These scales are solid and display a typical herring-bone pattern, very different from the hollow scales of the Glossata (proboscid-bearing moths and butterflies) that were also indentified. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 10 January 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by T.J.B. van Eldijk at Utrecht University in Utrecht, Netherlands, and colleagues was titled, "A Triassic-Jurassic window into the evolution of Lepidoptera." view more
Credit: [Credit: Hossein Rajaei]