Subsection
Pantherinae (Amanita ser. pantherinae)
Amanita pantherina. Photo: (c) Federico Calledda, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Pantherinae is a subfamily within the family Felidae, which was named and first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1917. The Pantherinae and the Felinae diverged from a common ancestor between 10.8 and 11.5 million years ago.