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Extinct genus of moths

Prohepialus
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Domain: Eukaryota
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 insect of uncertain phylogenetic placement. It was originally identified as a moth in the family Hepialidae; however, Simonsen, Wagner & Heikkilä (2019) considered it more likely to be a symphytan wasp. 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.

References

  1. Thomas J. Simonsen; David L. Wagner; Maria Heikkilä (2019). "Ghosts from the past: a review of fossil Hepialoidea (Lepidoptera)". PeerJ. 7: e7982. doi:10.7717/peerj.7982. PMC 6855209. PMID 31737446.
  2. Paleobiology database

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Taxon identifiers
Prohepialus incertus


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