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Mylothrites

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

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Jul 7, 2026
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Length
91 w
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Mylothrites
Temporal range:
Artist's reconstruction
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Nymphalini
Genus: Mylothrites
Scudder, 1875
Species:
M. pluto
Binomial name
Mylothrites pluto
(Heer, 1849)
Synonyms
  • Vanessa pluto Heer, 1849

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.1

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