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SUBMITTER: Simonsen TJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6855209 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Simonsen Thomas J TJ Wagner David L DL Heikkilä Maria M
PeerJ 20191111
We critically re-examine nine of the ten fossil specimens currently assigned to Hepialidae. Three fossils with impressions of wing veins and scales placed in the fossil genus <i>Prohepialus</i> Piton, 1940, and two mummified larvae that show apomorphic characters, have features that support placement in Hepialidae. The other four fossils that we evaluate, <i>Prohepialus incertus</i> Piton, 1940; <i>Oiophassus nycterus</i> Zhang, 1989; <i>Protohepialus comstocki</i> Pierce, 1945; and a fossil sca ...[more]