†Dynamine alexae Peñalver and Grimaldi 2006 (brush-footed butterfly)
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Insecta - Lepidoptera - Nymphalidae
Full reference: E. Peñalver and D. A. Grimaldi. 2006. New data on Miocene butterflies in Dominican Amber (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae and Nymphalidae) with the description of a new nymphalid. American Museum Novitates 3519:1-17
Belongs to Dynamine according to R. de Jong 2017
See also Peñalver and Grimaldi 2006 and Sohn et al. 2012
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: AMNH DR-18-2, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (AMNH coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (AMNH coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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