Bombycites oeningensis is an extinct lepidopteran from the Messinian (7-5 million years ago) of Öhningen, Switzerland.

[1] It is described in 1849 from a fossil pupa by the Swiss geologist and naturalist Oswald Heer.

[2] Because neither the adult nor larval forms are known, either of which contain crucial diagnostic features, its familial and superfamilial placement is uncertain.

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