| Bombycites Temporal range: Upper Miocene |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Genus: | †Bombycites Heer, 1849 |
| Type species | |
| †Bombycites oeningensis Heer, 1849 |
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Bombycites is an extinct genus of butterfly from the Upper Miocene (5.28 - 1.61 million years ago) of Oeningen, Croatia. It contains only one species, Bombycites oeningensis, described from a fossil pupa by the Swiss geologist and naturalist Oswald Heer. Its family and superfamily placement is uncertain.[1][2]