The fossil Lithopsyche was long assigned to the Boarmiini, but more recently a restudy indicated that it is actually a misidentified true butterfly (Papilionoidea).
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.