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 moth in the Hepialidae family. 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.[1]