Family Pieridae Swainson 1820 (butterfly)

Insecta - Lepidoptera - Pieridae

Full reference: W. Swainson. 1820. Zoological Illustrations, or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals, Selected Chiefly from the Classes of Ornithology, Entomology, and Conchology, and Arranged on the Principles of Cuvier and other Modern Zoologists. Entomology. Part I

Parent taxon: Papilionoidea according to R. de Jong 2017

See also Braby et al. 2006, Carpenter 1992, Sohn et al. 2012 and van Nieukerken et al. 2011

Sister taxa: Archaeolycorea, Hesperiidae, Lithopsyche, Lycaenidae, Nymphalidae, Papilionidae, Riodinidae, Stolopsyche

Subtaxa: Pierinae

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Tanzania (1 collection)

• Pliocene of Germany (1)

• Miocene of Croatia (1), Germany (1)

• Oligocene of France (1)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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