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Extinct genus of butterflies

Lithodryas
Temporal range: Chadronian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
L. styx
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)
Synonyms

Genus-level:

  • Lithopsyche Scudder, 1889 (non Butler, 1889: preoccupied)

Species-level:

  • Lithopsyche styx Scudder, 1889

Lithodryas is a prehistoric genus of butterflies 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 Latest Eocene-aged deposits at Florissant.

References

  1. Savela, Markku. "Lithodryas Cockerell, 1909".
  2. Natural History Museum; Pitkin, Brian; Jenkins, Paul (2023). "Lithodryas Cockerell, 1909". Butterflies and Moths of the World: Generic Names and Their Type-species. Natural History Museum. doi:10.5519/s93616qw. Retrieved April 6, 2010.
Taxon identifiers
Lithodryas styx


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