Lithopsyche
{{Short description|Extinct genus of butterflies}}
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| fossil_range = {{Fossilrange|Oligocene}}
| image = LithopsycheFrohawkCropped.jpg
| image_caption = Illustration by Frederick William Frohawk
| genus = Lithopsyche
| parent_authority = Butler, 1889
| species = antiqua
| authority = Butler, 1889
| display_parents = 3
}}
Lithopsyche is a genus of fossil butterflies 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
- {{cite journal|last=Butler|first=A. G.|title=Description of a new Genus of Fossil Moths of the Family Euschemidæ|year=1889|journal=Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London|url=https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofgen89zool#page/292/mode/1up}}
- {{cite journal|title=British Fossil Insects |first=T. D. A. |last=Cockerell |journal=Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum |volume=49 |issue=21 |url=http://hymfiles.biosci.ohio-state.edu/pdfs/1296/1296.pdf |pages=469–499 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/68HHrgW8w?url=http://hymfiles.biosci.ohio-state.edu/pdfs/1296/1296.pdf |archivedate=8 June 2012 |year=1915 |doi=10.5479/si.00963801.49-2119.469 |url-status=dead }}
- {{Cite journal | last1 = Hall | first1 = J. P. W. | last2 = Robbins | first2 = R. K. | last3 = Harvey | first3 = D. J. | doi = 10.1098/rspb.2004.2691 | title = Extinction and biogeography in the Caribbean: New evidence from a fossil riodinid butterfly in Dominican amber | journal = Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | volume = 271 | issue = 1541 | pages = 797–801| year = 2004 | pmid = 15255097| pmc = 1691661}}
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Category:Monotypic butterfly genera
Category:Fossil taxa described in 1889
Category:Taxa named by Arthur Gardiner Butler
Category:Monotypic prehistoric insect genera
Category:Oligocene insects of Europe
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