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Procapperia kuldschaensis

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Species of plume moth

Procapperia kuldschaensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Procapperia
Species: P. kuldschaensis
Binomial name
Procapperia kuldschaensis
(Rebel, 1914)
Synonyms
  • Oxyptilus kuldschaensis Rebel, 1914
  • Procapperia asiatica Zagulajev, 1986

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

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.
Taxon identifiers
Procapperia kuldschaensis


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