Mylothrites

Mylothrites
Temporal range: Late Miocene
Artist's reconstruction
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Nymphalinae
Tribe: Nymphalini
Rafinesque, 1815
Genus: Mylothrites
Scudder, 1875
Species: M. pluto
Binomial name
Mylothrites pluto
(Heer, 1850)
Synonyms
  • Vanessa pluto Heer, 1849

Mylothrites pluto is an extinct butterfly known from Late Miocene-aged strata in Öhningen, Germany, at the border between Germany and Switzerland.

Taxonomy

The fossil was originally placed in Vanessa by Oswald Heer, but was then moved to its own genus, Mylothrites, by Samuel Scudder.[1]

References

  1. Scudder, Samuel Hubbard. Fossil butterflies. Vol. 1. FW Putnam, 1875.
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