Prohepialus

Prohepialus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hepialidae
Genus: Prohepialus
Piton, 1940
Species: P. incertus
Binomial name
Prohepialus incertus
Piton, 1940

Prohepialus is an extinct genus of moth in the Hepialidae family. It contains only one species, Prohepialus incertus, which was described from a Thanetian crater lake diatomite (Paleocene) in Menat (Puy-de-Dôme), France. A second specimen is known from the Bembridge Marls (Eocene) in the United Kingdom.[1]

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