Doritites
| Doritites | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | †Doritites Rebel, 1898 |
| Species: | †D. bosniaskii
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| Binomial name | |
| †Doritites bosniaskii | |
Doritites bosniaskii is a fossil swallowtail butterfly in the subfamily Parnassiinae. It was described by Rebel in 1898. The genus and its sole species was described from the Miocene of Tuscany, Italy.
The fossil shows the light and dark bands of scales on the wings and traces on the rock near the fossil have been interpreted as showing parnassiine-like wing characters but could be rock artefacts.[2]
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Rebel's reconstruction
References
[edit]- ^ Rebel, H. (1898). "Fossile Lepidopteren aus der Miocänformation von Gabbro". Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematischen-naturwissenschaftliche Classe. Abteilung 1: Mineralogie, Biologie, Erdkunde. Wien. 107: 734–741, 745.
- ^ Kristensen, Niels P.; Schmidt-Rhaesa, Andreas (2013). Lepidoptera, moths and butterfliesVolume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Walter de Gruyter. p. 16.
Other sources
[edit]- Hancock, D.L., 1983. Classification of the Papilionidae (Lepidoptera): a phylogenetic approach. Smithersia 2: 1-48.
- Nazari, V., Zakharov, E.V., Sperling, F.A.H., 2007. Phylogeny, historical biogeography, and taxonomic ranking of Parnassiinae (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae) based on morphology and seven genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 42: 131–156.
External links
[edit]- TOL Picture
- Kyoto University
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