Fossil butterflies, calibration points and the molecular clock (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)
Author
Jong, Rienk De
text
Zootaxa
2017
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journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.583183
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freyeri
.
Pierites freyeri
Heer, 1849
Papilionoidea (?).
Croatia, Radoboj; early Miocene.
Depository: material probably lost, see
Sohn
et al
. (2012)
under
Pontia freyeri
.
Published figures: Scudder (1875: pl II, Figs 16, 18).
Original description and figure copied by Scudder (1875). Only one forewing present. Venation, particularly in apical part, hardly visible at all. Scudder placed this fossil in the recent genus
Pontia
(
Pieridae
:
Pierinae
) on the basis of obscure markings. He was followed by
Kozlov (1988)
. However, I agree with
Zeuner (1942)
in considering the condition of the fossil too poor to make any reliable observations about its relationship.