Lophophaena buetschlii (Haeckel 1887) Petrushevskaya, 1971

Plate 24, Figs. 1A – 2B.

Lithomelissa buetschlii n. sp., Haeckel, 1887, p. 1207, pl. 56, fig. 1.

Acanthocorys variabilis n. sp., Popofsky, 1913, p. 360 –364, text-fig. 80 (non text-figs. 71–79, 81).

Lophophaena buetschlii Haeckel, Petrushevskaya, 1971, p. 109, 111, pl. 58, figs. 1–10.

Lithomelissa buetschlii Haeckel, Renz, 1976, pl. 6, fig. 19.

Lithomelissa buetschlii Haeckel, Tan and Tchang, 1976, text-fig. 51a–51b.

Lophophaena buetschlii, Boltovskoy and Riedel, 1987, pl. 4, fig. 9.

Lophophaena buetschlii (Haeckel) Petrushevskaya, Van de Paverd, 1995, pl. 65, fig. 10 (non-figs. 3–4).

Lophophaena buetschlii (Haeckel) Petrushevskaya, Trubovitz et al., 2020, supplementary data 7.

Remarks. Haeckel (1887) originally described this species under the generic name Lithomelissa, subgenus Micromelissa . Petrushevskaya (1971) reassigned this species to Lophophaena and provided many detailed illustrations. Name usage has been mixed between these two genus assignments ever since, but here we follow Petrushevskaya (1971) ’s assignment to Lophophaena, because the apical spine is not free within the cephalis as it is in Lithomelissa .

Range. Late Miocene—Recent, EEP (Table 1).