Kingdom Animalia Family Incertae sedis Rank Genus | Class Insecta Phylum Arthropoda Order Butterflies and moths | |
Similar Lithodryas, Butterflies and moths, Prodryas, Gracillarioidea, Cossoidea | ||
Lithopsyche is a fossil butterfly 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.
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