Oiophassus
Extinct genus of moths
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Oiophassus is an extinct genus of moth in the family Hepialidae. It contains only one species, Oiophassus nycterus, which was described from Shanwang Bed sw2 in the Linchu district, Shandong province in China, which is part of an Astaracian lacustrine sandstone/mudstone in the Shanwang Formation.[1]
| Oiophassus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hepialidae |
| Genus: | †Oiophassus J. F. Zhang, 1989 |
| Species: | †O. nycterus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Oiophassus nycterus J. F. Zhang, 1989 | |
