Gazoryctra ganna

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Gazoryctra ganna
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hepialidae
Genus: Gazoryctra
Species:
G. ganna
Binomial name
Gazoryctra ganna
(Hübner, [1808]) [1]
Synonyms
  • Bombyx gannaHubner, [1808]
  • Hepialus arcticusBoheman, 1848
  • Hepialus confluensHellweger, 1914
  • Hepialus reductaDeutsch, 1930

Gazoryctra ganna is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is found in Sweden, Finland, Russia (Siberia), France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy [2] and Kazakhstan. [3]

The wingspan is 31–34 mm for males and 38–39 mm for females.

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Gazoryctra sciophanes is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is known from the United States, including North Carolina and Tennessee.

Gazoryctra wielgusi is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is known from Arizona and New Mexico.

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Sthenopis pretiosus, the gold-spotted ghost moth, is a species of moth of the family Hepialidae. It was first described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1856. It can be found in found Brazil, Venezuela and in the eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.

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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.
  2. Fauna Europaea
  3. "Hepialidae collection of Siberian Zoological Museum". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-02-24.