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Mylothrites pluto

Insecta - Lepidoptera - Nymphalidae

Taxonomy
Vanessa pluto was named by Heer (1849). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Radoboj (NHMW Wien Collection), which is in a Sarmatian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in Croatia.

It was recombined as Junonia pluto by Butler (1873) and Butler (1873); it was recombined as Mylothrites pluto by Scudder (1875), Pongrácz (1928) and Sohn et al. (2012).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1849Vanessa pluto Heer p. 179 figs. Pl 14, fig 4
1873Junonia pluto Butler p. 3 figs. Pl 1, fig 7
1875Mylothrites pluto Scudder p. 45 figs. Pl 2, figs 2,7,17
1928Mylothrites pluto Pongrácz p. 152 fig. 30
2012Mylothrites pluto Sohn et al. p. 66

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Panorpida
superorderAmphiesmenopteraKiriakoff 1948
Metamphiesmenoptera
RankNameAuthor
Euamphiesmenoptera
Panendymenoptera
Endymenoptera
Stelloptera
orderLepidoptera
Angiospermivora
suborderGlossata()
CoelolepidaNielsen and Kristensen 1996
infraorderHeteroneuraTillyard 1918
EulepidopteraKiriakoff 1948
Euheteroneura
DitrysiaBorner 1925
ApoditrysiaMinet 1983
ObtectomeraMinet 1986
superfamilyPapilionoidea
familyNymphalidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilySatyrinae
genusMylothrites
speciespluto()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Mylothrites pluto Heer 1849
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available