Protohepialus

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]

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