Prodryas Scudder 1878 (brush-footed butterfly)

Insecta - Lepidoptera - Nymphalidae

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1878. An Account of Some Insects of Unusual Interest from the Tertiary Rocks of Colorado and Wyoming. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 4(2):519-543

Parent taxon: Nymphalinae according to J. C. Sohn et al. 2012

See also Carpenter 1992 and Scudder 1878

Sister taxa: Aglais, Apanthesis, Doxocopa, Hestina, Junonia, Jupitellia, Limenitis, Lithodryas, Nymphalini, Nymphalites

Subtaxa: Prodryas persephone

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Florissant (MCZ Collection) (Eocene of Colorado)

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