Lithopsyche

Lithopsyche antiqua; Temporal range: Oligocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	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 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.
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1915). "British Fossil Insects" (PDF). Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum. 49 (21): 469–499. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.49-2119.469. Archived from the original (PDF) 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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