Prodryas persephone is an extinct species of brush-footed butterfly, known from a single specimen from the Chadronian-aged Florissant Shale Lagerstätte of Late Eocene Colorado. P. persephone is the first fossil butterfly to be found in North America, and is exquisitely well preserved. Its closest extant relatives are the mapwings and African admirals of the genera Hypanartia and Antanartia, respectively.
separate genus, Prodryas persephone is thought to be closely related to Hypanartia, and may be even closer to Antanartia. "Prodryas Scudder, 1878". Butterflies...
Florissant deposits of Colorado, including the exceptionally preserved Prodryas persephone. Andreas V. Martynov (1879–1938) recognized the close relationship...
the Late Eocene Prodryas persephone from the Florissant Fossil Beds, approximately 34 million years old. Butterfly fossils Prodryas persephone, a Late...
Papilionoidea into the present-day families took place during that epoch. Prodryas, from the end of the Eocene, can be quite robustly assigned to the Nymphalidae...
species †Priabona †Pristichampsus †Probathyopsis †Procas †Prodryas – type locality for genus †Prodryas persephone – type locality for species †Proiridomyrmex...
fascinating to Scudder, and his work helped make Hill's perfectly preserved Prodryas Persephone famous. In the 1880 census, Adam and Charlotte listed their...
tauricinerei †Prodipodomys †Prodipodomys centralis †Prodryas – type locality for genus †Prodryas persephone – type locality for species †Proelectrotermes...
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