Biology:Prohepialus
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Short description: Extinct genus of moths
| Prohepialus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hepialidae |
| Genus: | †Prohepialus Piton, 1940 |
| Species: | †P. incertus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Prohepialus incertus Piton, 1940
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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.[1] 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 .[2]
References
- ↑ 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. PMID 31737446.
- ↑ Paleobiology database
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q7248900 entry
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