Prohepialus | |
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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.