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Mylothrites

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Tribe
  
Nymphalini

Mylothrites

Mylothrites pluto is an extinct butterfly known from Late Miocene-aged strata in Öhningen, Germany, at the border between Germany and Switzerland.

Taxonomy

The fossil was originally placed in Vanessa by Oswald Heer, but was then moved to its own genus, Mylothrites, by Samuel Scudder.

References

Mylothrites Wikipedia