Thaites

Taxobox
name = "Thaites"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Papilionidae
subfamilia = Parnassiinae
genus = "Thaites"
genus_authority = Scudder , 1875
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = One species only: "Thaites ruminiana" Scudder 1875

"Thaites ruminiana", described by Samuel Hubbard Scudder in 1875, is a fossil swallowtail butterfly from Aix-en-Provence, Southern France.

References

*Hancock, D.L., 1983. Classification of the Papilionidae (Lepidoptera): a phylogenetic approach." Smithersia" 2: 1-48.
*Scudder, S.H., 1875. Fossil butterflies. "Memoirs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science" I: I-XI, 1-99. Salem, Massachusetts.

External Links

* [http://tolweb.org/Thaites_ruminiana/65426 TOL]