title: Prothalpia
text: # Prothalpia
  
  Prothalpia is a genus of false darkling beetles in the family Melandryidae. There are at least four described species in Prothalpia.
  
  ## Species
  
  These four species belong to the genus Prothalpia:
  
  * Prothalpia holmbergi (Mannerheim, 1852)
  * Prothalpia rausuana
  * Prothalpia undata LeConte, 1862
  * Prothalpia utakoae Sasaji, 1988
  