Prophalonia | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Incurvariidae |
Genus: | †
Prophalonia Rebel, 1936 |
Species: | †gigas
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Binomial name | |
†gigas Rebel, 1936
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Prophalonia is an extinct genus of moths in the family Incurvariidae. It was described by Rebel in 1936, and contained the species P. acutitarsella and P. gigas. [1] P. acutitarsellus was later transferred to Adelites.
Prophalonia was established in the Tortricidae and later transferred to the Tineoidea. [2] It was included in the Incurvariidae by F. M. Carpenter in 1992. [3]