Protohepialus
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| Genus: | †Protohepialus Pierce, 1945
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| Species: | †P. comstocki
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| †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]
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- Fossil Lepidoptera
- Fossil taxa described in 1945
- Hepialidae
- Miocene insects
- Prehistoric insects of North America
- Moth genera
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