Protohepialus

Protohepialus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hepialidae
Genus: †
Pierce, 1945
Species:
†P. comstocki
Binomial name
†Protohepialus comstocki
Pierce, 1945

Protohepialus is an extinct genus of moth in the family Hepialidae. It contains only one species, Protohepialus comstocki, which was described from a Tortonian marine shale (Upper Miocene) in the Puente Formation of California.[1]

References

  1. ^ Paleobiology database


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