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Prophalonia

Prophalonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Incurvariidae
Genus: Prophalonia
Rebel, 1936
Species: P. gigas
Binomial name
Prophalonia gigas
Rebel, 1936

Prophalonia is an extinct genus of moths in the Incurvariidae family. It was described by Rebel in 1936, and contained the species P. acutitarsella and P. gigas.P. acutitarsellus was later transferred to Adelites.

Prophalonia was established in the Tortricidae and later transferred to the Tineoidea. It was included in the Incurvariidae by F. M. Carpenter in 1992.


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