Pierites freyeri

Jong, Rienk De, 2017, Fossil butterflies, calibration points and the molecular clock (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), Zootaxa 4270 (1), pp. 1-63 : 27-28

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.583183
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2D00AFF5-4FE2-4EC1-A328-C8670CFB8D6D
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6046969
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AA87D3-285A-FFCC-F7F0-F8B6FABEB17E
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Pierites freyeri
status

Treatment

freyeri . Pierites freyeri Heer, 1849

Papilionoidea (?).

Croatia, Radoboj; early Miocene.

Depository: material probably lost, see Sohn et al. (2012) under Pontia freyeri .

Published figures: Scudder (1875: pl II, Figs 16, 18).

Original description and figure copied by Scudder (1875). Only one forewing present. Venation, particularly in apical part, hardly visible at all. Scudder placed this fossil in the recent genus Pontia ( Pieridae : Pierinae ) on the basis of obscure markings. He was followed by Kozlov (1988). However, I agree with Zeuner (1942) in considering the condition of the fossil too poor to make any reliable observations about its relationship.