''Protovermileo'' is an extinct genus of wormlion in the family

Vermileonidae The Brachyceran family Vermileonidae (the sole family in the infraorder Vermileonomorpha) is a small family of uncertain affinities and unusual biology. It includes fewer than 80 described species, most of them rare and with restricted distributi ...

. It contains only the species ''Protovermileo electricus'', which is known from

Baltic amber Baltic amber or succinite is amber from the Baltic region, home of its largest known deposits. It was produced sometime during the Eocene epoch, but exactly when is controversial. It has been estimated that this forested region provided the re ...

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Prehistoric Diptera genera Monotypic Brachycera genera Taxa named by Willi Hennig Vermileonidae Fossil taxa described in 1967 Baltic amber Priabonian insects Monotypic prehistoric insect genera {{brachycera-stub