Gazoryctra hyperboreus

Gazoryctra hyperboreus is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is known from North America,[2] from New England and Quebec west to the foothills of Alberta.[3]

Gazoryctra hyperboreus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hepialidae
Genus: Gazoryctra
Species:
G. hyperboreus
Binomial name
Gazoryctra hyperboreus
(Moschler, 1862)[1]
Synonyms
  • Epialus hyperboreus Moschler, 1862
  • Gazoryctra hyperborea

The wingspan is 38 to 45 millimetres (1.5 to 1.8 in). The forewings are pink-brown and crossed by a prominent silver-white band and two large irregular silver-white spots on the outer half of the costa, and another on the lower margin near the base. There is also a series of three to four small white spots along the outer margin. The hindwings are pink-brown, suffused with grey. Adults are on wing from mid August to early September in one generation per year.

References
  1. Nielsen, Ebbe S.; Robinson, Gaden S.; Wagner, David L. (2000). "Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera )" (PDF). Journal of Natural History. 34 (6): 823–878. doi:10.1080/002229300299282.
  2. mothphotographersgroup
  3. University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum


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