Pamphilites is an extinct genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. It contains only one fossil species, Pamphilites abdita, recovered from the Tertiary of Aix-en-Provence, France.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Subfamily: | Hesperiinae |
| Genus: | †Pamphilites |
| Species: | †P. abdita
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| †Pamphilites abdita Scudder, 1875
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Discovery edit
Pamphilites abdita was described in 1875 by the American entomologist and paleontologist Samuel Hubbard Scudder. The fossil was a single forewing recovered from the Lower Oligocene in Aix-en-Provence, France. The fossil wing is believed to have belonged to a female as it was lacking a prominent stigma (a patch of androconial scales).[2]
The type specimen, however, has since been lost.[2]
Taxonomy edit
Based on the shape and venation of the fossil wing, Scudder classified it as belonging to the subfamily Hesperiinae of the skipper butterfly family (Hesperiidae). Skipper butterflies belong to the superfamily Hesperioidea of the order Lepidoptera.[2][3]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Pamphilites Scudder, 1875". Natural History Museum. Retrieved July 13, 2011.
- ^ a b c Rienk de Jong (2007). "Estimating time and space in the evolution of the Lepidoptera" (PDF). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie (150): 319–346. ISSN 0040-7496. Retrieved July 13, 2011.
- ^ Andrew D. Warren; Joshua R. Ogawa & Andrew V. Z. Brower (2008). "Phylogenetic relationships of subfamilies and circumscription of tribes in the family Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea)" (PDF). Cladistics. 24 (5): 1–35. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.567.856. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00218.x. S2CID 53492574. Retrieved July 13, 2011.
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