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Satyrites incertus
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incertus. Satyrites incertus Daudet, 1876
Daudet (1876) described and depicted a supposed fossil caterpillar (France, Bouches-du-Rhône, Aix-en-Provence; early Oligocene), with a bifid tail. For this reason, he described it as belonging to Nymphalidae: Satyrinae, although this character occurs in some other subfamilies of the Nymphalidae as well (Ackery et al. 1999), and even assigned it to a fossil genus described by Scudder (1872). Nel & Nel (1985) found many similar fossils at the same locality and concluded that they were not caterpillars, but conifer catkins, that with some fantasy are reminiscent of caterpillars.
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Published as part of Jong, Rienk De, 2017, Fossil butterflies, calibration points and the molecular clock (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 4270 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.583183
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.583183 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF93FFAB2840FFD7F767FF87FFA3B03E (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/2D00AFF5-4FE2-4EC1-A328-C8670CFB8D6D (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03AA87D3286BFFFBF7F0F8D1FEB8B123 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Satyrites
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Species
- incertus
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Daudet, H. (1876) Descriptions d'une chenille fossile trouvee dans le calcaire d'Aix (Provence). Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, 1876, 415 - 424.
- Ackery, P. R., de Jong, R. & Vane-Wright, R. I. (1999) The butterflies: Hedyloidea, Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea. In: Kristensen, N. P. (Ed.), Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies. 1. Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbook of Zoology. 4 (35). Lepidoptera. De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 263 - 300.
- Scudder, S. H. (1872) Description d'un nouveau papillon fossile (Satyrites Reynesii) trouve a Aix en Provence. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, 23, (2), 66 - 72. cudder, S. H. (1875) Fossil butterflies. Memoirs American Association Advancement Science, 1, 1 - 99.
- Nel, A. & Nel, J. (1985) A propos de chenilles et de chrysalides fossiles du stampien en France, Alexanor, 14, 126 - 130.