Procapperia kuldschaensis

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Procapperia kuldschaensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Procapperia
Species:
P. kuldschaensis
Binomial name
Procapperia kuldschaensis
(Rebel, 1914)
Synonyms
  • Oxyptilus kuldschaensisRebel, 1914
  • Procapperia asiaticaZagulajev, 1986

Procapperia kuldschaensis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Ukraine, [1] Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, [2] China, Mongolia, southern Afghanistan and the Tian Shan area. [3]

The larvae possibly feed on Dracocephalum nutans .

References

  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. Pterophoridae aus Zentralasien und angrenzenden Territorien.- 2. Teil (Lepidoptera)
  3. Fazekas, Imre (2003). "Federmotten aus der Mongolei, Russland, der Türkei, der Balkanhalbinsel und Afrika, mit Beschreibung neuer Arten (Microlepidoptera: Pterophoridae)" [Five new species, distribution records of plume moths from Mongolia, Russia, Turkey, Balkans and the Africa (Microlepidoptera: Pterophoridae)]. Folia comloensis (in German). 12: 5–24.