Prototheoridae
Prototheoridae (Anglice African primitive ghost moths) sunt familia papilionum superfamiliae Hepialoideorum, in Africa australi endemica.

Diversitas et distributio
Prototheoridae tredecim species nunc notas comprehendunt, in singulo genere (Prototheora), in Africa Australi (Kristensen 1999:60; Nielsen et al. 2000), vel ad Angolam (Prototheora angolae) et Mulanje Massif Malavii endemico (Davis 2001). Vide etiam retractationes a Janse (1942) et Davis (1996) factas.

Species
Prototheora parachlora (Meyrick, 1919) (olim in Metatheora)
=Prototheora paraglossa; Janse, 1942
Prototheora petrosema Meyrick, 1917
Prototheora monoglossa Meyrick, 1924
Prototheora corvifera (Meyrick, 1920) (olim in Metatheora)
Prototheora merga Davis, 1996
Prototheora quadricornis Meyrick, 1920
Prototheora biserrata Davis, 1996
Prototheora serruligera Meyrick, 1920
Prototheora cooperi Janse, 1942
Prototheora geniculata Davis, 1996
Prototheora drackensbergae Davis, 1996
Prototheora angolae Davis, 1996
Prototheora malawiensis Davis, 2001

Bibliographia
Davis, D. R. 1996. A revision of the southern African family Prototheoridae (Lepidoptera: Hepialoidea). Entomologica Scandinavica, 27: 393–439.
Davis, D. R. 2001. A new species of Prototheora from Malawi, with additional notes on the distribution and morphology of the genus (Lepidoptera: Prototheoridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 103(2): 452–456. Abstractum.
Janse, A. J. T. 1942. The moths of South Africa. Volume IV, part 1. Jugatae.
Kristensen, N. P. 1998. 1999. "The non-Glossatan Moths." In Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies, vol. 1, Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography, ed. N. P. Kristensen, 41–62. Handbook of Zoology, vol. 4, pars. 35. Berolini et Novi Eboraci: Walter de Gruyter.
Nielsen, E. S., G, S, Robinson, et D. L. Wagner. 2000. Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera) Journal of Natural History, 34(6): 823–878.Abstractum.

Nexus externi
"Common Name Index" apud situm troplep.org
De familia apud situm leptree.net
De familia apud situm species.wikimedia.org (Wikispecies)
De familia apud situm tolweb.org (Arbor Vitae)
De partibus oris apud situm rsnz.natlib.govt.nz

Hepialoidea
Monotypicae insectorum familiae
Taxa Meyrick
Taxa 1917