Doritites

Doritites
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	† Doritites Rebel, 1898
Species:	†D. bosniaskii
Binomial name
†Doritites bosniaskii Rebel, 1898 [1]

Doritites bosniaskii is a fossil swallowtail butterfly in the subfamily Parnassiinae. It was described by Rebel in 1898. The genus and its sole species were described from the Miocene of Tuscany, Italy.

The fossil shows light and dark bands of scales on the wings, and traces on the rock near the fossil have been interpreted as showing pamassiine-like wing characters, but could also be rock artifacts. ^[2]

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  Rebel's reconstruction

References

1. Rebel, H. (1898). "Fossile Lepidopteren aus der Miocänformation von Gabbro". Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematischen-naturwissenschaftliche Classe. Abteilung 1: Mineralogie, Biologie, Erdkunde. Wien. 107: 734–741, 745.
2. Kristensen, Niels P.; Schmidt-Rhaesa, Andreas (2013). Lepidoptera, moths and butterfliesVolume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Walter de Gruyter. p. 16.

Other sources

• Hancock, D.L., 1983. Classification of the Papilionidae (Lepidoptera): a phylogenetic approach. Smithersia 2: 1-48.
• Nazari, V., Zakharov, E.V., Sperling, F.A.H., 2007. Phylogeny, historical biogeography, and taxonomic ranking of Parnassiinae (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae) based on morphology and seven genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 42: 131–156.

External links

• TOL Picture
• Kyoto University