Kingdom Animalia Family Lycaenidae Phylum Arthropoda Order Butterflies and moths | Class Insecta Scientific name Lithodryas styx Rank Species | |
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Genus †Lithodryas
Cockerell, 1909 Similar Lithopsyche, Butterflies and moths, Riodinidae | ||
Lithodryas is a prehistoric genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was introduced as a replacement for Samuel Hubbard Scudder's genus Lithopsyche which is invalid as a homonym, as another fossil lepidopteran genus had been described under the same name shortly before Scudder established his genus.
The type species was found in Tertiary deposits at Florissant.
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