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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Castniidae |
| Genus: | †Dominickus Tindale, 1985 |
| Species: | †D. castnioides
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| †Dominickus castnioides Tindale, 1985
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Dominickus is an extinct genus of moth in the butterfly-moth family Castniidae containing a single species Dominickus castnioides.[1] The species is known from late Eocene, Priabonian stage,[2] lake deposits near the small community of Guffey in Teller County, Colorado, United States.[3]
- ^ Tindale, N. B. (1985). "A butterfly-moth (Lepidoptera:Castniidae) from the Oligocene shales of Florissant, Colorado" (PDF). Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera. 24 (1): 31–40. doi:10.5962/p.266764. S2CID 109301568.
- ^ Archibald, SB (2010). "Revision of the scorpionfly family Holcorpidae (Mecoptera), with description of a new species from Early Eocene McAbee, British Columbia, Canada" (PDF). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 46 (1–2): 173–182. doi:10.1080/00379271.2010.10697654. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2015-05-24.
- ^ Meyer, H.W.; Smith, D.M. (2008). "Paleontology of the Upper Eocene Florissant Formation, Colorado". Geological Society of America. 435: 123, 169. ISBN 9780813724355.