Lithodryas

Lithodryas is a prehistoric genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae^[1]. 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.

Phylum:Arthropoda

Class:Insecta

Order:Lepidoptera

Family:Lycaenidae

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Lithodryas stix 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. stix
Binomial name
†Lithodryas stix (Scudder, 1889)
Synonyms
Genus-level: Lithopsyche Scudder, 1889 (non Butler, 1889: preoccupied) Species-level: Lithopsyche styx Scudder, 1889

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The type species was found in Latest Eocene-aged deposits at Florissant.^[2]