Praepapilio
| Praepapilio Temporal range: Eocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Subfamily: | †Praepapilioninae |
| Genus: | †Praepapilio Durden & Rose, 1978 |
| Species [1] | |
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2; see text | |
Praepapilio is an extinct genus of swallowtail butterfly from the middle Eocene deposits of Colorado, United States. The genus is considered to be the only representative of the fossil subfamily Praepapilioninae.[2]
Praepapilio contains the extremely few papilionid fossils ever discovered. Two species have been described, each from a single fossil find.
Species
- †P. colorado
- †P. gracilis
References
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- ↑ Rienk de Jong (2007). "Estimating time and space in the evolution of the Lepidoptera" (PDF). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 150: 319–346.
- ↑ Collins, N. Mark; Collins, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtails of the World:the IUCN red data book. IUCN Protected Area Programme Series. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, U.K.: IUCN. pp. 401 & 8 plates. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6. Retrieved 22 October 2010.