Mylothrites

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

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

Taxonomy

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

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