Mylothrites
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| File:Mylothrites pluto.JPG | |
| Artist's reconstruction | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Nymphalini |
| Genus: | †Mylothrites Scudder, 1875 |
| Species: | †M. pluto
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| Binomial name | |
| †Mylothrites pluto (Heer, 1849)
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Mylothrites pluto is an extinct butterfly known from Late Miocene-aged strata in Öhningen, Germany, at the border between Germany and Switzerland.
Taxonomy
[edit | edit source]The fossil was originally placed in Vanessa by Oswald Heer, but was then moved to its own genus, Mylothrites, by Samuel Scudder.[1]
References
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