Capperia fusca is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece and southern Russia.[1] It is also known from Turkey.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Capperia |
| Species: | C. fusca
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| Capperia fusca (O. Hofmann, 1898)
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It is a montane species.
The larvae feed on Stachys alpina and Stachys cassia.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Capperia fusca (O. Hofmann, 1898)". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Capperia". www.nic.funet.fi.
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