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{{Short description|Single-species extinct genus of moths}}
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{{Taxobox
| name = ''Netoxena''
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| fossil_range = [[Aptian|Late Aptian]]<br />~{{fossil range|115|113}}
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Arthropod]]a
| classis = [[Insect]]a
| ordo = [[Lepidoptera]]
| familia = †[[Eolepidopterigidae]]
| genus = †'''''Netoxena'''''
| genus_authority = Sohn ''in'' Sohn ''et al.'', 2012
| species = †'''''N. nana'''''
| binomial = †''Netoxena nana''
| binomial_authority = (Martins-Neto 1999)
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'''''Netoxena''''' is an extinct [[genus]] of moths within the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Eolepidopterigidae]], containing one species, '''''Netoxena nana''''', which is known from the [[Crato Formation]] of the [[Araripe Basin]] in northeastern [[Brazil]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110719065249/http://www.bernstein.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/odonata/Crato_TrichLep.pdf Insects of the Crato Formation]</ref> Its generic name was originally ''Xena'' Martins-Neto (1999); however, this name turned out to be preoccupied by a genus of [[Chloropidae|chloropid]] [[Fly|flies]] ''[[Xena (genus)|Xena]]'' Nartshuk (1964). A replacement generic name ''Netoxena'' was coined in 2012.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Jae-Cheon Sohn |author2=Conrad Labandeira |author3=Donald Davis |author4=Charles Mitter |year=2012 |title=An annotated catalog of fossil and subfossil Lepidoptera (Insecta: Holometabola) of the world |journal=Zootaxa |volume=3286 |pages=1–132 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3286.1.1 |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2012/f/zt03286p132.pdf }}</ref>
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[[Category:Eolepidopterigoidea]]
[[Category:Fossil Lepidoptera]]
[[Category:Cretaceous insects]]
[[Category:Aptian life]]
[[Category:Early Cretaceous animals of South America]]
[[Category:Cretaceous Brazil]]
[[Category:Fossils of Brazil]]
[[Category:Crato Formation]]
[[Category:Fossil taxa described in 1999]]
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