Catapterix

Catapterix
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Clade:	Euarthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Acanthopteroctetidae
Genus:	Catapterix Zagulajev & Sinev, 1988
Species
Catapterix crimaea Catapterix tianshanica

Catapterix is a genus of moths, formerly considered monotypic, in the Acanthopteroctetidae family. Catapterix crimaea was its sole known species until the formal description of Catapterix tianshanica in 2016.

Its type species, C. crimaea, is found on the Crimea Peninsula in Ukraine. whereas C. tianshanica is described from Kyrgyzstan.

Some authors place it in the monotypic family Catapterigidae.