†Thanatites Scudder 1875 (skipper)
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Insecta - Lepidoptera - Hesperiidae
Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1875. Fossil butterflies. Memoirs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 1:1-99
Parent taxon: Hesperiidae according to J. C. Sohn et al. 2012
See also Carpenter 1992
Sister taxa: Coeliadinae, Hesperiinae
Subtaxa: Thanatites vetula
Type: Vanessa vetula
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Rott (Krantz Bonn coll) (Oligocene of Germany)
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