Phylledestes is an extinct genus of butterfly from the Miocene shales of Florissant, Colorado.

[1] It contains only one species, Phylledestes vorax, described from a fossil larva.

Its family and superfamily placement is uncertain,[2] though it has been proposed to belong to the family Noctuidae of the superfamily Noctuoidea.

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