| Higher taxa: | 
                
                Incurvariidae (family)/ 
                
                
                
                
                
                Protaephagus (genus)/ 
                
                
                
                 | 
                | Status: | Accepted
                
                 | 
                | Authorship: | Scoble, 1980 | 
                | Citation: | Protaephagus gen. nov. | 
                
                    | Taxon remarks: | Type species: Protaephagus capensis Scoble, 1980. Journal of the entomological Society of Southern Africa 43(1): 81. By original designation. | 
                
                
                    | Publication: | Scoble M. J. 1980b. A new incurvariine leaf-miner from South Africa, with comments on structure, life-history, phylogeny, and the binominal system of nomenclature (Lepidoptera: Incurvariidae). | 
                    | Journal: | Journal of the entomological Society of Southern Africa | 
                    | Volume: | 43 | 
                    | Issue: | 1 | 
                    | Pagination: | 79 |