Oiophassus

Oiophassus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hepialidae
Genus: Oiophassus
J. F. Zhang, 1989
Species: O. nycterus
Binomial name
Oiophassus nycterus
Zhang, 1989

Oiophassus is an extinct genus of moth in the Hepialidae family. It contains only one species, Oiophassus nycterus, which was described from Shanwang Bed sw2 in the Linchu district, Shantung province in China, which is part of an Astaracian lacustrine sandstone/mudstone in the Shanwang Formation.[1]

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