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Prohepialus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Hepialidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Species
  
†P. incertus

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Prohepialus


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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Prohepialus Wikipedia