{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{automatic taxobox | taxon = Prolophota | image_alt = A white Prolophota trigonifera rests on a leaf | image_caption = <i>Prolophota trigonifera</i> | image = Prolophota_trigonifera_(41449968084).jpg | authority = Hampson, 1896 }}
'''''Prolophota''''' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by George Hampson in 1896.<ref>{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |date=July 5, 2019 |url=https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/erebidae/boletobiinae/prolophota/ |title=''Prolophota'' Hampson, 1896 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=November 19, 2019}}</ref><ref name="Z+2011">{{cite journal|last1=Zahiri|first1=Reza|title=Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)|journal=Systematic Entomology|date=2011|doi=10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00607.x|display-authors=etal|doi-access=free}}</ref>
==Taxonomy== The genus has previously been classified in the subfamily Calpinae of the family Noctuidae.
==Species== * ''Prolophota pallida'' <small>Turner, 1936</small> * ''Prolophota trigonifera'' <small>Hampson, 1896</small>
==References== {{Reflist}} *{{cite web |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusList3.dsml?&FAMILY=Arctiidae&sort=GENUS |title=Search results Family: Arctiidae |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London}}
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Category:Boletobiinae Category:Noctuoidea genera Category:Taxa named by George Hampson
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