Biology:Lithopsyche
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Short description: Extinct genus of butterflies
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| Genus: | Lithopsyche Butler, 1889
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| Lithopsyche antiqua Butler, 1889
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Lithopsyche is a fossil butterfly known from Oligocene-aged strata 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.
The late Eocene-aged Lithodryas styx, of Colorado, 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. https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofgen89zool#page/292/mode/1up.
- Cockerell, T. D. A. (1915). "British Fossil Insects". Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 49 (21): 469–499. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.49-2119.469. Archived from the original on 8 June 2012. https://www.webcitation.org/68HHrgW8w?url=http://hymfiles.biosci.ohio-state.edu/pdfs/1296/1296.pdf.
- 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. PMID 15255097.
Wikidata ☰ Q6648150 entry
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