florissantensis . Oligodonta florissantensis Brown, 1976

Fig. 8.

Nymphalidae: Libytheinae .

USA, Colorado, Florissant; late Priabonian, late Eocene.

Depository: FFNM (holotype).

Published figures: Brown (1976: Figs 1–3); Emmel et al. (1992: Fig. 1 /2, and at back of color plate III); Kawahara (2013: Fig. 62).

For a good description and interpretation of the fossil, see Kawahara (2013).This author synonymized it with Barbarothea florissanti (see below) and placed it in the extant genus Libytheana (Nymphalidae), see description below. It was placed in the Pieridae by Brown (1976) (followed by Emmel et al. 1992), because of the unjustly supposed similarity with Leodonta . Subsequently, Braby et al. (2006) used the fossil as calibration point on the phylogenetic tree of the Pieridae as a close relative of the Catasticta group, if not the genus Leodonta .