Lithopsyche antiqua Butler 1889 (butterfly)

Insecta - Lepidoptera

Full reference: A. G. Butler. 1889. Description of a new genus of fossil moths belonging to the geometrid family Euschemidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 59:292-297

Belongs to Lithopsyche according to R. de Jong 2017

See also Butler 1889 and Jarzembowski 1980

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NHML I.19984, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (A'Court Smith collection), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (A'Court Smith collection)

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