| Hydriomena? protrita Temporal range: Priabonian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Tribe: | Hydriomenini |
| Genus: | Hydriomena (?) |
| Species: | H.? protrita
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| Hydriomena? protrita Cockerell, 1922
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Hydriomena? protrita is an extinct species of moth in the family Geometridae, and possibly in the modern genus Hydriomena.[1] The species is known from late Eocene, Priabonian stage,[2] lake deposits of the Florissant Formation in Teller County, Colorado, United States. It was first described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell in 1922.[1]
- ^ a b Cockerell, T. D. A. (1922). "A fossil Moth from Florissant, Colorado". American Museum Novitates (34): 1โ2.
- ^ Meyer, H.W.; Smith, D.M. (2008). Paleontology of the Upper Eocene Florissant Formation, Colorado. Vol. 435. pp. 123, 169. ISBN 9780813724355.
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