 The species was first collected by Thomas Vernon Wollaston , who visited Lundy in 1844 and 1845 . He collected specimens of 153 species of beetle , including a specimen of the species that later became known as P. luridipennis . Charles Owen Waterhouse listed the species in volume 2 of the Entomologist 's Monthly Magazine as " Psylliodes 6 sp . — ? " , and it was formally described and named by Austrian entomologist Franz Kutschera in the journal Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift in 1864 . 
