Baltimartyria
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| Baltimartyria rasnitsyni | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Micropterigidae |
| Genus: | †Baltimartyria Skalski, 1995 |
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Baltimartyria is an
Early Eocene[2] Baltic amber deposits in the Baltic Sea region of Europe.[1] The genus currently contains two described species, Baltimartyria proavitella and Baltimartyria rasnitsyni.[1]
B. proavitella
The
Vienna, Austria. Rebel named the species Micropterix proavitella, thinking it belonged to the modern genus Micropterix. Rebel published his description of the species in 1936.[1] The fossil was reexamined in 1995 by the Polish entomologist Andrzej W. Skalski, who recognized the species was not a member of Micropterix and moved the species to the new genus Baltimartyria.[1]
B. rasnitsyni
The second species of Baltimartyria described from Baltic amber is B. rasnitsyni which, like B. proavitella, is known from a single specimen.Alexandr Pavlovich Rasnitsyn.[1]