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.
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...
Late Eocene butterfly from the Florissant Fossil Beds, 1887 engraving Lithopsyche antiqua, an Early Oligocene butterfly from the Bembridge Marls, Isle...
It was introduced as a replacement for Samuel Hubbard Scudder's genus Lithopsyche, which is invalid as a homonym, as another fossil lepidopteran genus...
supported clade with the Charaxinae as sister group. The fossil genus Lithopsyche is apparently a Papilionoidea incertae sedis, which has long been mistaken...
fossil genus Lithodryas is usually (but not unequivocally) placed here; Lithopsyche is sometimes placed here, but sometimes in the Riodininae. List of lycaenid...
and Lamas, 2004) Euselasiinae Nemeobiinae Riodininae The fossil genus Lithopsyche is sometimes placed here but sometimes within the Lycaenidae. Species...
work also bear names referring to the underworld in Greek mythology: Lithopsyche styx (referring to the river Styx) and Jupitellia charon (referring to...
"Boarmia" penthearia however appears to belong to the Macariini. The fossil Lithopsyche was long assigned to the Boarmiini, but more recently a restudy indicated...
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