Fossil butterflies, calibration points and the molecular clock (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)
Author
Jong, Rienk De
text
Zootaxa
2017
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journal article
32975
10.5281/zenodo.583183
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1175-5326
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incertus
.
Satyrites incertus
Daudet, 1876
Daudet (1876)
described and depicted a supposed fossil caterpillar (France, Bouches-du-Rhône, Aix-en-Provence; early Oligocene), with a bifid tail. For this reason, he described it as belonging to
Nymphalidae
:
Satyrinae
, although this character occurs in some other subfamilies of the
Nymphalidae
as well (
Ackery
et al
. 1999
), and even assigned it to a fossil genus described by
Scudder (1872)
.
Nel & Nel (1985)
found many similar fossils at the same locality and concluded that they were not caterpillars, but conifer catkins, that with some fantasy are reminiscent of caterpillars.