†Thaites Scudder 1875 (swallowtail butterfly)
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Insecta - Lepidoptera - Papilionidae
Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1875. Fossil butterflies. Memoirs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 1:1-99
Parent taxon: Parnassiinae according to J. C. Sohn et al. 2012
See also Carpenter 1992 and Heer 1861
Sister taxon: Luehdorfiini
Subtaxa: Thaites ruminiana
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Aix-en-Provence (collection of Professor Heer) (Oligocene of France)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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