Lithodryas Temporal range: Late Eocene |
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An illustration by F. W. Frohawk, showing a Lithodryas fossil and other butterflies | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | †Lithodryas Cockerell, 1909 |
Species: | †L. styx |
Binomial name | |
Lithodryas styx (Scudder , 1889) |
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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. The type species was found in Tertiary deposits at Florissant.[1]