Chelis czekanowskii

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Chelis czekanowskii
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Chelis
Grum-Grshimailo, 1900
Species:
C. czekanowskii
Binomial name
Chelis czekanowskii
(Grum-Grshimailo, 1900)
Synonyms
  • Hyperborea czekanowskiiGrum-Grshimailo, 1900
  • Hyperborea czecanousciHampson, 1920

Chelis czekanowskii is a species of tiger moth in the family Erebidae. The females are brachypterous (have reduced wings). It is found in the Russian Far East (Nzhnyaya Tunguska river, northern Yakutia, Kolyma river, Koryakia, Chukotka, Kamchatka, Stanovoi, Udokan) and Alaska. The species was first described by Grigory Grum-Grshimailo in 1900. [1]

The wingspan is about 37 mm. [2]

This species was formerly a member of the genus Hyperborea, but was moved to Chelis along with the species of the genera Holoarctia and Neoarctia. [3] [4]

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References

  1. Savela, Markku. "Hyperborea Grum-Grshimailo, 1899". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
  2. "930238.00 – 8200 – Chelis czekanowskii – (Grum-Grschmaïlo, 1900)". North American Moth Photographers Group. Mississippi State University. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
  3. Rönkä, Katja; Mappes, Johanna; Kaila, Lauri; Wahlberg, Niklas (2016). "Putting Parasemia in its phylogenetic place: a molecular analysis of the subtribe Arctiina (Lepidoptera)". Systematic Entomology. 41 (4): 844–853. doi: 10.1111/syen.12194 .
  4. Schmidt, B. Christian; Lafontaine, J. Donald; Troubridge, James T. (2018). "Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico IV". ZooKeys (252): 241–252. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.252.28500 . PMC   6189224 . PMID   30337831.