''Procapperia pelecyntes'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

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Kyushu is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands ( i.e. excluding Okinawa). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regional name referred to Kyushu and its surroun ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

, India and

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

. The length of the forewings is 7–8 mm. Adults emerge from May to November in Japan. The larvae feed on '' Scutellaria indica''. They usually eat on the under surface of a leaf, and pupate on the stem very near the soil level or rarely on the under surface of a leaf. The pupa directs downwards.

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Taxonomic and Biological Studies of Pterophoridae of Japan (Lepidoptera)
Oxyptilini Moths of Asia Moths of Japan Moths described in 1908 Taxa named by Edward Meyrick {{Pterophoridae-stub