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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florissantensis
.
Oligodonta florissantensis
Brown, 1976
Fig. 8.
Nymphalidae
:
Libytheinae
.
USA
,
Colorado
, Florissant; late Priabonian, late Eocene.
Depository: FFNM (holotype).
Published figures:
Brown (1976:
Figs 1–3
)
;
Emmel
et al
. (1992
:
Fig. 1
/2, and at back of color plate III);
Kawahara (2013: Fig. 62)
.
For a good description and interpretation of the fossil, see
Kawahara (2013)
.This author synonymized it with
Barbarothea florissanti
(see below) and placed it in the extant genus
Libytheana
(Nymphalidae)
, see description below. It was placed in the
Pieridae
by
Brown (1976)
(followed by
Emmel
et al
. 1992
), because of the unjustly supposed similarity with
Leodonta
. Subsequently,
Braby
et al
. (2006)
used the fossil as calibration point on the phylogenetic tree of the
Pieridae
as a close relative of the
Catasticta
group, if not the genus
Leodonta
.