Prohepialus
| 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 | |
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†Prohepialus incertus Piton, 1940 |
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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.
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