Lithopsyche
| Lithopsyche Temporal range:
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| Illustration by Frederick William Frohawk | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea |
| Family: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Lithopsyche Butler, 1889 |
| Species: | †L. antiqua
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| Binomial name | |
| †Lithopsyche antiqua Butler, 1889
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Lithopsyche is a genus of fossil butterflies 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.