Gazoryctra fuscoargenteus

Gazoryctra fuscoargenteus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hepialidae
Genus: Gazoryctra
Species:
G. fuscoargenteus
Binomial name
Gazoryctra fuscoargenteus
Synonyms
  • Hepialus fuscoargenteus O. Bang-Haas, 1927
  • Hepialus sordida Nordstrom, 1929
  • Pharmacis fuscoargenteus
  • Gazoryctra fuscoargentea postmaculata (Landin, 1943)

Gazoryctra fuscoargenteus is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is found from northern Scandinavia to Siberia and the Kamchatka Peninsula.

The wingspan is 37–42 mm for males and 39–50 mm for females. Adults are on wing from the end of July to the beginning of August.

The larvae feed on Betula nana.

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. S2CID 86004391.


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