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]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hepialidae |
| Genus: | Gazoryctra |
| Species: | G. hyperboreus |
| Binomial name | |
| Gazoryctra hyperboreus | |
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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
- 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.
- mothphotographersgroup
- University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum
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