Editing Caterpillar (section)

=== Fossils ===
[[File:Eogeometer valdens holotype 01.jpg|thumb|''[[Eogeometer vadens]]'', the earliest known [[geometrid moth]] caterpillar found in [[Baltic amber]]<ref name="Fischer_al.2019" /><ref name="DW 11-2019" /><ref name="Newsweek 11-2019" />]]

[[2019 in insect paleontology#Other insects|In 2019]], a [[geometrid moth]] caterpillar dating back to the [[Eocene]] [[Epoch (geology)|epoch]], approximately 44 [[Mya (unit)|million years ago]], was found preserved in [[Baltic amber]]. It was described under ''[[Eogeometer vadens]]''.<ref name="Fischer_al.2019">{{cite journal |last1=Fischer |first1=Thilo C. |last2=Michalski |first2=Artur |last3=Hausmann |first3=Axel |year=2019 |title=Geometrid caterpillar in Eocene Baltic amber (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) |journal=[[Scientific Reports]] |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 17201 |doi=10.1038/s41598-019-53734-w |pmid=31748672 |pmc=6868187 |bibcode=2019NatSR...917201F}}</ref><ref name="DW 11-2019">{{cite news |last=Muller |first=Natalie |title=German scientists find 44-million-year-old caterpillar |newspaper=[[DW News|DW]] |url=https://www.dw.com/en/german-scientists-find-44-million-year-old-caterpillar/a-51341040 |date=20 November 2019 |access-date=23 November 2019 |archive-date=21 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191121214607/https://www.dw.com/en/german-scientists-find-44-million-year-old-caterpillar/a-51341040 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Newsweek 11-2019">{{cite news |last=Georgiou |first=Aristos |title=Scientists discover 'exceptional' 44-million-year-old caterpillar preserved in amber |newspaper=[[Newsweek]] |url=https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-exceptional-caterpillar-preserved-amber-1473293 |date=21 November 2019 |access-date=24 November 2019 |archive-date=23 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191123221345/https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-exceptional-caterpillar-preserved-amber-1473293 |url-status=live }}</ref> Previously, another fossil dating back approximately 125 million years was found in [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] [[amber]].<ref name="GrimaldiEngel2005">{{cite book |last1=Grimaldi |first1=David |author-link1=David Grimaldi (entomologist) |last2=Engel |first2=Michael S. |author-link2=Michael S. Engel |date=June 2005 |title=Evolution of the Insects |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-0-5218-2149-0 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/life-sciences/entomology/evolution-insects?format=HB&isbn=9780521821490#ZEGmsTMLBuLrPUhV.97 |access-date=2019-11-24 |archive-date=2018-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019035838/https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/life-sciences/entomology/evolution-insects?format=HB&isbn=9780521821490#ZEGmsTMLBuLrPUhV.97 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="TheConversation 01-2018">{{cite web |last=Martill |first=David |title=Scientists have accidentally found the oldest ever butterfly or moth fossils |website=[[The Conversation (website)|The Conversation]] |url=https://theconversation.com/scientists-have-accidentally-found-the-oldest-ever-butterfly-or-moth-fossils-90029 |date=13 January 2018 |access-date=24 November 2019 |archive-date=28 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191128191146/http://theconversation.com/scientists-have-accidentally-found-the-oldest-ever-butterfly-or-moth-fossils-90029 |url-status=live }}</ref>