thank you. long live the lepidopterans!

Yeah, but 230 million years is/would be new info & older than thought.

Edit: o shit ... with wings.
sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895981125002469

This specimen comes from a communal latrine in the lower Carnian deposits (∼236 Ma) of the Chañares Formation, La Rioja Province, northwestern Argentina. The tiny fossil scales are hollow and ornamented, which is a synapomorphy of Lepidoptera and suggests that they could belong to this group. If this is the case, the Chañares scales would partially fill the temporal mismatch between phylogenomic date and the fossil evidence of butterflies and moths because they preceded the previously oldest lepidopteran record by c. 35 million years. Moreover, the scales have a combination of features present in early diverging glossatan lepidopterans. The inclusion of the temporal data provided by the Chañares scales into an updated temporal calibration of lepidopteran phylogeny shows that the proboscis, a key evolutionary novelty for the group (Glossata), evolved between c. 260–244 Ma. Thus, the proboscis-bearing lepidopterans would be part of the repertory of new plants and animals that diversified during the aftermath of the EPME.

Legends say some of the original moths are still flying towards it.

who do you think made the moon?

Worked fine for Dragonflies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meganeura They had wingspans of up to 75 centimeters.

'Butterflies with bat wings feeding on dwarf mammoths' now a thing in my mind