Lithopsyche

Lithopsyche
Temporal range: Oligocene
Illustration by Frederick William Frohawk
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Incertae sedis
Genus: Lithopsyche
Butler, 1889
Binomial name
Lithopsyche antiqua
Butler, 1889

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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