| Gazoryctra wielgusi | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hepialidae |
| Genus: | Gazoryctra |
| Species: | G. wielgusi |
| Binomial name | |
| Gazoryctra wielgusi Wagner and Tindale, 1988 [1] | |
Gazoryctra wielgusi is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is known from Arizona [2] and New Mexico.
The length of the forewings is 15–18 mm. Adults are pink and silvery. They are on wing in July and August. [3]
The Hepialidae are a family of insects in the lepidopteran order. Moths of this family are often referred to as swift moths or ghost moths.
Aenetus is a genus of moths of the family Hepialidae. There are 24 described species found in Indonesia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Australia and New Zealand. Most species have green or blue forewings and reddish hindwings, but some are predominantly brown or white. The larvae feed in the trunks of living trees, burrowing horizontally into the trunk, then vertically down.
The Hepialoidea are the superfamily of "ghost moths" and "swift moths".
Gazoryctra is a genus of moths of the family Hepialidae. There are 14 described species found in Eurasia, Canada and the United States.
Gazoryctra fuscoargenteus is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is found from northern Scandinavia to Siberia and the Kamchatka Peninsula.
Gazoryctra chishimana is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is known from the Kuril Islands and Japan.
Gazoryctra confusus is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is known from the United States.
Gazoryctra ganna is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is found in Sweden, Finland, Russia (Siberia), France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Kazakhstan.
Gazoryctra hyperboreus is a moth of the family Hepialidae first described by Heinrich Benno Möschler in 1862. It is known in North America, from New England and Quebec west to the foothills of Alberta.
Gazoryctra lembertii is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is known from the United States, including California.
Gazoryctra macilentus is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is known from Siberia, the Russian Far East, Japan, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.
Gazoryctra mathewi, or Matthew's ghost moth, is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is known from western North America, including British Columbia, Washington and California. It has a wingspan of 34 mm.
Gazoryctra mcglashani is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is known from the United States, including California.
Gazoryctra novigannus is a moth of the family Hepialidae first described by William Barnes and Foster Hendrickson Benjamin in 1926. It is known in North America, from Quebec, west to the Rocky Mountains and south to Arizona.
Gazoryctra pulcher is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is known from the United States, including Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.
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, including Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Alberta.
Sthenopis purpurascens, the four-spotted ghost moth, is a species of moth of the family Hepialidae. It was described by Packard in 1863. It is found in Canada and the United States, from Labrador and New York north and west to British Columbia and the Northwest Territories, south in the mountains to Arizona.
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