Divergence time estimation over a robust phylogeny is a prerequisite for understanding their evolutionary biology. Recent empirical studies have found that molecular dating analyses are critically affected by the number and temporal distribution of fossil calibration points (Yang & Yoder, 2003; Hug & Roger, 2007), the interpretation of relationships between fossil and extant taxa (Benton & Ayala, 2003; Donoghue & Benton, 2007), and how fossil constraints are treated (Magallón, 2004; Ho & Phillips, 2009). Confident dating thus requires multiple fossils that are securely identified and of sufficient age. We provide a list of lepidopteran fossils potentially useful for calibration points, and end on the perspective for dating the currently working phylogeny of Lepidoptera (Regier et al., 2013), using these fossils. In addition, we show microtomographic images for some lepidopteran fossils that we are currently working on.

• Jae-Cheon Sohn(Institute of Littoral Environment, Mokpo National University)
• Sei-Woong Choi(Department of Environmental Education, Mokpo National University)