Lithopsyche
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| Lithopsyche Temporal range: Oligocene | |
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| Illustration by Frederick William Frohawk | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Incertae sedis |
| Genus: | Lithopsyche Butler, 1889 |
| Binomial name | |
| Lithopsyche antiqua Butler, 1889 | |
Lithopsyche is a fossil butterfly known from the Oligocene of the Isle of Wight, England. The sole specimen is too incomplete to allow a certain assignment of a family, but it was placed on its description as a geometrid and more recently in the Riodininae.
Lithodryas styx was originally described with the same genus name.
References
- Butler, A. G. (1889). "Description of a new Genus of Fossil Moths of the Family Euschemidæ". Proceedings of the general meetings for scientific business of the Zoological Society of London.
- Cockerell, T. D. A. (1915). "British Fossil Insects" (PDF). Proceedings U. S. National Museum 49 (21): 469–499. Archived from the original on 8 June 2012.
- Hall, J. P. W.; Robbins, R. K.; Harvey, D. J. (2004). "Extinction and biogeography in the Caribbean: New evidence from a fossil riodinid butterfly in Dominican amber". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 271 (1541): 797–801. doi:10.1098/rspb.2004.2691. PMC 1691661. PMID 15255097.
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