Prohepialus
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| Genus: | †Prohepialus Piton, 1940
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| Species: | †P. incertus
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| †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. PMC 6855209. PMID 31737446.
- ^ Paleobiology database
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