Procapperia maculatus explained

Procapperia maculatus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Asia Minor and the Alps of France and Italy and the Pyrenees.^[1] It has also been recorded from Russia and Georgia.^[2]

The wingspan is 20–23 mm.^[3]

The larvae feed on Scutellaria alpina.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Fazekas . Imre . 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 . 2003 . 12 . 5–24 . de .
2. http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/Quad_1_0277-0284.pdf Pterophoridae aus dem Kaukasus-Gebiet
3. http://www.lepiforum.de/cgi-bin/lepiwiki.pl?Procapperia_Maculatus lepiforum.de
4. http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/pterophoroidea/pterophoridae/pterophorinae/procapperia/index.html Procapperia at funet