Protohepialus
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Protohepialus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hepialidae |
Genus: | †Protohepialus Pierce, 1945 |
Species: | †P. comstocki
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Binomial name | |
†Protohepialus comstocki Pierce, 1945
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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
External links
- Data related to Protohepialus at Wikispecies
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- Fossil Lepidoptera
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- Hepialidae
- Miocene insects
- Prehistoric insects of North America
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- Prehistoric insect genera
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