Phylledestes Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | incertae sedis |
Genus: | †
Phylledestes Cockerell, 1907 |
Type species | |
†Phylledestes vorax Cockerell, 1907
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Phylledestes is an extinct genus of butterfly from the Miocene shales of Florissant, Colorado. [1] It contains only one species, Phylledestes vorax, described from a fossil larva. Its family and superfamily placement is uncertain, [2] though it has been proposed to belong to the family Noctuidae of the superfamily Noctuoidea. [1]