Chelis gracilis

Chelis gracilis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Chelis
Species:	C. gracilis
Binomial name
Chelis gracilis (Dubatolov, 1996)
Synonyms
Palearctia gracilisDubatolov, 1996 Palearctia erschoffi mirandaPlustsch & Dolin, 2000 Palearctia erschoffi arcanaPlustsch & Dolin, 2000

Chelis gracilis is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov in 1996. It is found in the Chatkal Mountains and Kyrgyzstan. ^[1]

This species was moved from the genus Palearctia to Chelis as a result of phylogenetic research published in 2016. ^{[2] [3]}

Subspecies

• Chelis gracilis gracilis
• Chelis gracilis arcana(Plustsch & Dolin, 2000) (Kyrgyzstan)

References

1. Savela, Markku. "Palearctia gracilis Dubatolov, 1996". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
2. 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 .
3. Saldaitis, Aidas; Volynkin, Anton V. (2020). "On the taxonomy of the Chelis glaphyra (Eversmann, 1843) speciesgroup, with description of a new subspecies of Chelis gratiosa (GrumGrshimailo, 1890) from Kyrgyzstan, brachipterous females of Chelis kashmirica (Ferguson, 1985) and Chelis golbecki..." . Ecologica Montenegrina. 38. doi:10.37828/em.2020.38.7.

• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.