Profidia is an extinct genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.
It contains only one species, Profidia nitida.
It is known from Oligo-Miocene amber found near Simojovel in Chiapas, Mexico.
The species was described by American entomologist Judson Linsley Gressitt in 1963, using a single specimen (UCMP 12630) from the collections of the University of California Museum of Paleontology in Berkeley, California.
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