Vanessa amerindica

Vanessa amerindica
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Vanessa
Species:
†V. amerindica
Binomial name
†Vanessa amerindica
Miller & Brown, 1989
Reconstruction of Vanessa amerindica, an extinct butterfly from the Chadronian-aged Florissant, of Latest Eocene Colorado.

Vanessa amerindica was a species of butterfly in the genus Vanessa that is extinct and was discovered as fossils.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "A new oligocene fossil butterfly, Vanessa Amerindica (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), from the Florissant formation, Colorado" (PDF). Floridamuseum.ufl.edu.
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