Lithopsyche Temporal range:
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Illustration by Frederick William Frohawk | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Papilionoidea |
Family: | incertae sedis |
Genus: | †
Lithopsyche Butler, 1889 |
Species: | †L. antiqua
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Binomial name | |
†Lithopsyche antiqua Butler, 1889
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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.