Gazoryctra roseicaput

Gazoryctra roseicaput
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Hepialidae
Genus:Gazoryctra
Species: G. roseicaput
Binomial name
Gazoryctra roseicaput
(Neumoegen and Dyar, 1893)[1]
Synonyms
  • Hepialus roseicaput Neumoegen and Dyar, 1893
  • Hepialus demutatus Barnes and Benjamin, [1926]
  • Hepialus mutatus Barnes and Benjamin, [1926]

Gazoryctra roseicaput is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It was described by Berthold Neumoegen and Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1893. It is known from the mountains of western North America,[2] including Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Alberta.[3]

The wingspan is about 32 mm. Adults are dull red brown with silvery-white spots on the forewings. The hindwings are unmarked. Adults are on wing in the last half of August.[4]

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. ↑ Bug Guide
  4. ↑ University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum


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