''Procacitas'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

s of the family

Incurvariidae Incurvariidae is a family of small primitive monotrysian moths in the order Lepidoptera. There are twelve genera recognised (Davis, 1999). Many species are leaf miners and much is known of their host plants, excluding ''Paraclemensia acerifoliell ...

. It contains only one species, ''Procacitas orientella'', which is found in

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 ...

(Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku),

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(Sakhalin, Irkutsk, Primorye) and

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...

.Distributional records and biological notes on Japanese species of the family Incurvariidae (Lepidoptera)
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wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...

is 13–14 mm for males and 11.5–15 mm for females. The forewings are dark brown with a purple tinge and a silvery white band. The larvae feed on ''

Pyrola incarnata ''Pyrola'' is a genus of evergreen herbaceous plants in the family Ericaceae. Under the old Cronquist system it was placed in its own family Pyrolaceae, but genetic research showed it belonged in the family Ericaceae. The species are commonly ...

''. They create an elliptical case consisting of two pieces of the same size.

References

*Определитель насекомых Дальнего Востока России. Т. V. Ручейники и чешуекрылые Ч.1. / под общ.ред. П. А. Лера. — Владивосток: «Дальнаука», 1997. — С. 290. — 540 с. — 500 экз. — Incurvariidae Monotypic moth genera Moths of Asia Adeloidea genera Moths described in 1987 {{Incurvarioidea-stub